By: Andrew B. Robins, Thomas H. Prol and Raymond S. Papperman
On January 27, 2020, Governor Murphy unveiled a series of broad regulatory proposals seeking to establish a “clean energy future” framework in the Garden State. The sweeping changes − billed as first-in-the-nation “comprehensive and aggressive suite of climate change regulations” − are laid out in three separate, but interrelated administration documents:
- A newly updated New Jersey Energy Master Plan from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
- Governor Murphy’s Executive Order 100
- NJDEP Commissioner McCabe’s Administrative Order 2020-01
These new energy and climate change requirements would dramatically impact land use, development, utilities, energy consumption, and numerous other areas of everyday life.