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Past Chairs: Sunil Somalwar, Steve Ember, Don McBride, Sandy Lowich, Kevin Geoffroy

Please join us for our monthly TeleTownHall at 7 PM 3-May-2012
Dial: 1.866.501.6174 Passcode: 1004000#

Agenda:

1. Distinguished Guest: Jon Wiener, JD Attorney for Earthjustice, Washington, DC
earthjustice.org/

Earthjustice (a non-profit public interest law firm) is representing Sierra Club in trying to make EPA follow the Clean Air Act in setting air pollution standards for sewage sludge incinerators. Earthjustice has sued EPA over the agencyÕs failure to set standards that would require incinerators (such as the two operated by the Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority) to significantly reduce their emissions of toxic air pollutants. This source of pollution impacts us locally!

2. NJ and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)- Daphne Speck-Bartynski
www.rggi.org/rggi

3. Superfund site in our midst. American Cyanamid/Pfizer site: Don McBride

www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/american_cyanamid/
www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/environmentalists_slam_epa_pla.html

4. New ideas

Respectfully Submitted,

Daphne Speck-Bartynski -- Political Chair
Jane Tousman - Conservation Advisor
Don McBride- Vice Chair
Roomi Nusrat - Chair (908-429-9017)
Raritan Valley Executive Committee

Outings leader McClellan quoted on Dismal Swamp Hike in Wild New Jersey Article

Other Initiatives:
The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative - Rutgers University

• The Sierra Club has contracted with The Fund for the Public Interest in New Brunswick (Campaign Office - Facebook) (732 246-8128) to do canvasing in our area.
  They are asking for support to ban offshore drilling and to hold BP acountable for the spill.
• Edison Wetlands Association (Edison, Metuchin, South Plainfield) 732-321-1300
• New Green Media
• Green Highland Park
• Edison Greenways Group 732-985-7071
• D&R Greenway Land Trust.
• The Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership 732-249-5297
• Sustainable Raritan River (BlueRaritan.org)
• South Branch Watershed Association: The South Branch Raritan River Watershed
• Somerset Naturalists
• Sourland Planning Council, Tamara Garaffa, Exec. Director tgaraffa@sourland.org
• NY/NJ Baykeeper: Protecting The Hudson-Raritan Estuary
• Duke Farms promoting Nature Programs and Environmental Stewardship
• Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
• NJ Audubon (NJAS) (www.njaudubon.org) 609-656-7612

Eagle's nest web cam:
The 2,700 acre Duke Estate in Hillsborough has a web cam pointed at an eagle's nest for streaming video.In 2009 three chicks hatched from April 6-12. The youngest eaglet took his maiden flight on July 6.
In 2010 there are 2 chicks.

In 2010 there were two eggs. The eggs hatched the end of March.and will start to "branch," which means they'll hop from the nest to the branches of the nest tree at the end of May. The chicks are expected to fledge (Take flight) in the middle of June, but will remain in the area of the nest tree for several weeks after fledging, while they practice flight and learn to hunt.

Go to: www.dukefarms.org/Education/Research/Duke-Farms-Eagle-Cam/

Members:
There are about 1,540 Sierra Club members in the Raritan Valley Group area (Southern Somerset and Middlesex counties) in the following communities:

  New Jersey Sierra Club, 145 West Hanover St., Trenton, NJ 08618, USA

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  Page Last Modified 4/28/2012
  Questions and comments about this web site may be sent to: Don McBride
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