New Jersey A 4632: Extends for five years date of certain greenhouse gas emissions and clean energy goals.

Bill Text

A4632 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4632 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Extends for five years date of certain greenhouse gas 
emissions and clean energy goals. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning the date of certain greenhouse gas emissions 
and clean energy goals, and amending various parts of the statutory law.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2007, 
c.112 (C.26:2C-38) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� The Legislature finds 
and declares that, internationally, the issue of global warming has caused 
alarm, awareness, and action concerning climate changes occurring around the 
globe attributed to the high level of certain gases called "greenhouse 
gases" - gases that increase temperatures in the atmosphere and the risk 
of catastrophic changes to the Earth's ecosystems and environment; that, while 
this global warming may be a theory to some, the effects of increasing levels 
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are accepted by all respected scientists 
and the vast majority of the international community as seriously detrimental 
to the ecosystems and environment of the world; that, ultimately, if steps are 
not taken to reverse these trends, the effects on human, animal and plant life 
on Earth may be catastrophic; that solutions exist to halt the increasing of 
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and reduce these emissions; that, as a 
global issue, each country and region within a country must do its part to reduce 
these greenhouse gases that threaten the globe; and that, as a State, there are 
specific actions that can be taken to attack the problem of global warming, 
through reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in the State and participation 
in regional and interstate initiatives to reduce these emissions regionally, 
nationally, and internationally.

���� The Legislature further finds 
and declares that, while carbon dioxide is the primary and most abundant 
greenhouse gas, other greenhouse gases known as short-lived climate pollutants, 
including black carbon, fluorinated gases, and methane, create a warming 
influence on the climate that is many times more potent over a shorter period 
of time than that of carbon dioxide, and have a dramatic and detrimental effect 
on air quality, public health, and climate change; and that reducing emissions 
of these pollutants can have an immediate beneficial impact on climate change 
and public health. 

���� The Legislature therefore 
finds and declares that it is in the public interest to establish a greenhouse 
gas emissions reduction program that includes a comprehensive strategy to 
reduce short-lived climate pollutants and to limit the level of Statewide greenhouse 
gas emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generated outside 
the State but consumed in the State, to the 1990 level or below, of those 
emissions by the year 2020, and to reduce those emissions to 80 percent below 
the 2006 level by the year [2050] 2055 .

(cf: P.L.2019, c.197, s.1.)

���� 2.��� Section 3 of P.L.2007, 
c.112 (C.26:2C-39) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� For the purposes of 
P.L.2007, c.112 (C.26:2C-37 et al.):

���� "Department" means 
the Department of Environmental Protection.� 

���� "Greenhouse gas" 
means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, 
perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and any other gas or substance 
determined by the Department of Environmental Protection to be a significant 
contributor to the problem of global warming.� 

���� "Statewide greenhouse gas 
emissions" means the sum of calendar year emissions of greenhouse gases 
from all sources within the State, and from electricity generated outside the 
State but consumed in the State, as determined by the department pursuant to 
subsection c. of section 5 of P.L.2007, c.112 (C.26:2C-41). 

���� "2020 limit" means 
the level of greenhouse gas emissions equal to the 1990 level of Statewide 
greenhouse gas emissions.

���� "[2050] 2055 
limit" means the level of greenhouse gas emissions equal to 80 percent 
less than the 2006 level of Statewide greenhouse gas emissions.� 

(cf: P.L.2019, c.197, s.2.)

���� 3.��� Section 4 of P.L.2007, 
c.112 (C.26:2C-40) is amended to read as follows:

���� 4.� a. No later than January 
1, 2020, the level of Statewide greenhouse gas emissions shall be reduced to, 
or below, the 2020 limit.� No later than January 1, [2050] 2055 , the greenhouse gas 
emissions in the State shall be stabilized at or below the [2050] 2055 
limit and shall not exceed that level thereafter.� The department shall 
consider the economic impact upon the State and upon the emitters of a 
greenhouse gas for any measure imposed to meet the 2020 limit and the [2050] 2055 
limit.

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