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NJSPE
NJSPE is offering 6 hours of Continuing Education, to satisfy CE requirements. Mark your calendar! Seating is limited! Register today!
Monday, April 18, Crown Plaza, Cherry Hill
All NJ Professional Engineers renewing their license must meet the requirements of 24 hours of Continuing Education
including 2 hours of Ethics, by the April 30, 2016
deadline.
These sessions fulfill the Ethics requirement
and provide 6 PDH's!
PESNJ
Well it is almost renewal time and we have the best answer to your PDH problem. We
will give you 4 PDH's for $60 along with a plant tour of recently built food dehydrating
facility. Dinner will consist of gourmet sandwiches, soda and dessert. This is an
operating plant, no alcohol is permitted. If you reserve by April 5th, you may also
choose your sandwich. Just include it with your email reservation; we will do our best to have it for you.
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PESMC
The Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment was completed in 2015. This
program will provide an overview of the engineering that went into creating a building
that is well-suited to support a vibrant and expanding program of research and
teaching in the areas of sustainable energy development, energy efficiency, and environmental
protection and remediation related to energy, while housing the complex
of laboratories, offices, lecture spaces, courtyards and gardens.
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NJSPE
Save the date for the Board Installation and Awards Reception at Mercer Oaks Country Club on June 29.
NSPE
Click here to learn more or join NSPE.
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NJ Spotlight
New Jersey still has an opportunity to be a leader in an emerging offshore wind industry, despite years of delay in putting together a financial plan to lure developers to build along the coast, officials said recently.
The state is well positioned to develop offshore wind farms thanks to natural features that include a relatively shallow coastal shelf; abundant wind resources; and a proximity to markets with a demand for electricity, industry executives and government officials said at a forum at Stockton University.
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Governing
As city councilors here discussed the local water system recently, Summer Smith, a homeowner, rose to ask a question: "Can you explain in plain English what 'emergent water conditions' means? It sounds kind of alarming."
David Trovato, the council president, acknowledged that any hint of a water quality emergency "would scare the hell out of me, too." But there is no emergency in Woodbury.
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Newsworks
New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund is nearing the bottom of the barrel, leaving little to cover costs of needed road repairs and mass transit.
Motorists and municipalities are urging New Jersey lawmakers to commit more money to transportation projects.
West Caldwell Mayor Joe Tempesta, president of the New Jersey League of Municipalities, said replenishing the trust fund is vital to towns because it provides money for road repairs.
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NJ Spotlight
The nation's largest utility appears to be gaining a bigger foothold in New Jersey.
In a surprise decision, the District of Columbia Public Service Commission narrowly approved a merger between Pepco Holdings, Inc., the owner of Atlantic City Electric, and Exelon.
The decision, which reversed an earlier rejection of the deal by the commission last summer, is the final regulatory approval needed for the $6.8 billion deal to go forward — if Exelon accepts the terms of the settlement approved 2-1 by the district agency.
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Asbury Park Press
State lawmakers want to find out which New Jersey public schools have unsafe levels of lead in their drinking water and spend millions to correct the problems.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney and two other Democrats outlined legislation that would allocate $3 million for twice-a-year water-testing at all public schools and make $20 million available to install water-system filters where required.
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NJ.com
Mayor Ras Baraka renewed his call for outside help in dealing with the Newark's water crisis, saying it could take more than a billion dollars to update the city's crumbling pipes and other infrastructure.
Speaking at an education forum at Central High School, the mayor said contamination at nearly half of the city's 67 schools had shed new light a problem that stretched well beyond Newark.
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NJ Spotlight
Another new natural-gas pipeline will be built through a portion of the Pinelands, a project advocates said will ensure resilient and redundant service to most customers of New Jersey Natural Gas.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities unanimously approved the 30-mile project at its monthly meeting in Trenton, a session briefly disrupted by protesters battling the proposal. Chanting "Stop the pipeline," and "This is a sham," the meeting briefly adjourned until the protesters were escorted out by state troopers.
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NJ Spotlight
Nearly $20 million in corporate business taxes is paying for management and salaries at state parks this year — a practice the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services claims is not authorized under language in the current budget approved by lawmakers.
If Gov. Chris Christie gets his way, next year's budget will divert another $20 million from an open-space and farmland preservation program to manage the park system once again, setting up a new dispute between the executive and legislative branches over how environmental funds are spent.
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NJ Spotlight
The chairwoman of a key legislative committee is pushing a new bill that would provide $20 million to fund improvements to the city of Newark's water system in an attempt to deal with high levels of lead in at least 30 schools in the district.
The legislation (A-3583), sponsored by Assemblywoman Grace Spencer (D-Essex), would divert money from the state's Clean Energy Fund to make the necessary improvements to the city's water-supply infrastructure.
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The Record
The state is eliminating the requirement for older passenger cars to have a tailpipe emissions test every two years, a move that has drawn criticism from some environmentalists concerned about the state's air quality.
The tailpipe test currently is required for passenger cars from model year 1995 and older, and the fleet of such vehicles on the road is shrinking, diminishing the value of maintaining the tailpipe test system, said Sandy Grossman, a spokeswoman with the state Motor Vehicle Commission.
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| | 2015-2016 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |
| President |
Michael J. Hope, PE |
| President-Elect |
Mark Janiszewski, PE |
| Vice President |
Vatsal A. Shah, PE |
| Secretary |
Michael J. Bennink, PE |
| Treasurer |
William Castle, PE |
| First Past President |
Mark V. Shourds, PE, PP |
| NSPE Director At Large |
Brian Van Nortwick, EIT |
| NSPE Delegate |
Richard Olsen, PE |
| Counsel |
Lawrence Powers, Esq. |
| Executive Director |
Joseph A. Simonetta, CAE |
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