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Toxins and Waste Reduction

Gubernatorial Tracker
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Northeast view of the Delaware Water Gap. Image courtesy Nicholas A. Tonelli
Northeast view of the Delaware Water Gap. Image courtesy Nicholas A. Tonelli
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  • First 100 Days
    Amplify the importance of shifting to reusable and refillable non-plastic alternatives.
  • First 100 Days
    Continue to advance the implementation of New Jersey’s law requiring periodic lead paint inspections of certain rental housing units.
  • First 100 Days
    Invigorate the state lead poisoning education campaign so that the public knows to demand lead-safe housing, paint, water, and soil.
  • First Year
    Require that home sellers provide a lead risk assessment to buyers, similar to what is currently required for radon.
  • First Year
    Require that Section 8 rent-subsidized units and affordable housing be inspected in a timely fashion for lead hazards prior to occupancy.
  • First Year
    Improve the New Jersey Annual Lead Surveillance Report by adding geocoded maps of lead surveillance data by census tracts, and make it easily accessible for political leaders, school officials, and the public.
  • First Year
    Spend down all federal American Rescue Plan Act funds dedicated to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Lead Paint Remediation and Abatement Program by the December 2026 deadline.
  • First Year
    Support initiatives aimed at stopping the growing stream of e-waste, such as a right-to-repair law or direction to agencies charged with consumer protection to investigate built-in obsolescence as a manufacturing strategy.
  • First Term
    Collaborate with other states in the region to create a standard for e-waste recycling focused on extended producer responsibility.
  • First Term
    Incentivize markets for the recovery of textile waste and mandates extended producer responsibility for the proper reuse or disposal of products at the end of use.
  • First Term
    Support rail safety legislation that requires two-person crews, wayside detectors, the sharing of bridge inspection reports with the state, and limits on the length of trains carrying hazardous materials. (See Assembly Bill No. 4460 / Senate Bill No. 3389 of the 2024–2025 legislative session.)

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Executive Action Tracker

New Jersey LCV Education Fund has put forward its goals for the Sherrill administration, which we will update after Governor Sherrill’s first 100 days, first year, and at the completion of her first term.

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