NJDEP: Friend or Foe? (Infographic)

Ever since its founding in 1970, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has enforced hundreds of environmental laws, rules, and regulations which have helped create a safe and sustainable place to live in for New Jerseyans. In 2017 alone, the NJDEP issued 11 compliance advisories which apply to all facets of environmental protection.

While these regulations are vital to secure the welfare and health of New Jerseyans, it also exposes facility owners and operators to previously unforeseen cost and potential legal trouble due to non-compliance.

In fact, in 2014, the number of facilities operating in the state that were found non-compliant to NJDEP’s air pollution control regulations reached 34% – which motivated the agency to conduct 953 enforcement actions that penalized and halted the operations of the said facilities.

To understand the true cost of New Jersey’s Air Pollution Control Act and its corresponding stringent air pollution measures, it is necessary to see the scope of these requirements, as well as the operational/administrative adjustments and potential capital investments that facilities must make, as specified in the recent advisories to said requirements.