By Frank Brill, EnviroPolitics Editor
A trivia question for you fellow-followers of environmental issues in the New Jersey Legislature: How many years have the Senate and Assembly environmental committees been holding their joint summer hearing at the Jersey Shore?
My guess would have been seven. It turns out I wasn’t even close. The first joint hearing took place in August of 2008 in Toms River.
Our official source? Veteran Office of Legislative Services aide Carrie Anne Calvo-Hahn who just happens to have a file on her desk containing every single agenda for those get-togethers.
Carrie Anne also can tell you what the subject was for each. Among them were: Barnegat Bay protection, the state’s energy master plan, beach access, and plastic bag recycling.
This year’s focus will be the broader topic of recycling, as in what impact China’s import ban on U.S. recyclables has had on New Jersey county and municipal recycling programs, and how the state might help to stabilize the disruption and stimulate markets for recyclable materials and recycled products.
The hearing is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 15, in the LMH Room, Toms River Municipal Complex, 33 Washington Street, Toms River, NJ.
See you there?
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