Murphy Energy Master Plan Must Go Bigger

Final plan should reject phony dirty energy solutions, set more aggressive goals

The Murphy administration released a draft of its long-awaited Energy Master Plan, intended to provide a roadmap to achieving the governor’s goal of 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2050.

Food & Water Watch senior organizer Matt Smith released the following statement in response:

“Governor Murphy’s Energy Master Plan is not a road map for 100% clean energy, but rather a plan to keep New Jersey hooked on dirty energy from fossil fuels and nuclear power. Dirty, unsafe nuclear power should not play a role in the clean energy plan for New Jersey, or any other state. And so-called ‘carbon capture’ would allow fossil fuel companies to continue business as usual, waiting for unproven technologies to reduce harmful emissions instead of making such reductions directly.

“While renewables will increase under Murphy’s plan, it does not go beyond the state’s existing and meager goals, it does not set aggressive standards for energy efficiency, and will waste taxpayer and ratepayer money on expensive, unproven and dangerous energy sources. Renewable energy has to be the future, or there is no future.”

“The Murphy administration should prioritize the actions that It can take right now: Enacting a moratorium on all new fossil projects across the state. This would demonstrate that the governor is serious about getting the state off fossil fuels as quickly as we must in order to avoid climate catastrophe.”

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