Lawmakers in nearly a dozen states—California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia—resoundingly rejected climate superfund bills this year on the basis of affordability concerns and serious legal doubts, but activists and allied lawmakers in New Jersey are pushing ahead.

Last week, the New Jersey General Assembly’s Environment and Solid Waste Committee voted 4-2 to advance the “Climate Superfund Act” (A3735), despite a myriad of concerns about the proposed legislation’s impact on the state’s economic climate and a similar bill stalling before the last legislative session ended. The State Senate’s Environment and Energy Committee followed suit and advanced an amended version of its companion bill (S2338) earlier today.

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