Event will highlight role of climate change in exacerbating damaging weather events
HOBOKEN, NJ – Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 23, state and local leaders will gather for a press conference at 11:30 a.m. at the Hoboken PATH Station to highlight the impacts of extreme weather and climate change in Hoboken and throughout the state of New Jersey.
Assemblyman Ruben Ramos (NJ-33); Hoboken Councilman Tim Occhipinti and Jeff Tittel, Director of the New Jersey Sierra Club will offer remarks at the press conference, which follows President Obama’s historic action on climate change. The President’s plan includes the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants, as well as other strategies to prepare America for the effects of climate change.
In October 2012, New Jersey was devastated by deadly Superstorm Sandy – the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Just last week, New Jersey suffered from a horrendous heat wave, the latest in a series of extreme weather events in recent years that have included massive snowstorms, droughts, nor’easters and even a tornado. As a result of these and other recent events, 14 New Jersey counties have received natural disaster designations in recent years.
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Press Conference
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:30 a.m.
Hoboken PATH Station, 1 Hudson Place, Hoboken, NJ 07030
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