Recent News

• Public Access Is a Right, Not a Privilege!

    NY/NJ Baykeeper and Hackensack Riverkeeper successfully sued NJDEP in 2016 to enforce better statewide protections of the public’s right to access their waterways. Much needed legislation, which will codify and strengthen state obligations to the Public Trust doctrine, was agreed upon by the League of Municipalities, the business community and environmentalists.  It sailed through the Senate Environment and Energy Committee unanimously and was referred to the Assembly after a nearly unanimous floor vote. The Public Access Bill ensures through state law that the public has meaningful and practical access to, and use of, the shoreline and tidal waters that Read more →

• Bill Introduced by Mukherji and Cunningham Seeks to Protect Liberty State Park

  A bill recently introduced in the New Jersey State Legislature will seek to protect Jersey City’s Liberty State Park from inappropriate privatization and commercial development plans. “The Liberty State Park Protection Act,” introduced by New Jersey Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (D-Hudson) and Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Hudson), seeks to preserve open space at Liberty State Park (LSP) in perpetuity and to protect it against the relentless assaults of inappropriate privatization and commercial development schemes that have plagued this great, free American public commons since it opened in 1976. The park encompasses more than 1,200 acres–approximately 600 acres of land and 600 acres of Read more →

• Make It a Baykeeper Valentine’s Day! Send a Dozen Oysters!

  Visit http://nynjbaykeeper.org/adoptanoyster/ for more information and to order your one dozen oysters! Read more →

• NY/NJ Baykeeper is Celebrating its 30th Year!

  Since 1989, NY/NJ Baykeeper has been championing clean water and healthy habitats. We are on a mission is to protect, preserve and restore the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary! Join us for a year-round schedule of special events, programming and initiatives! Stay tuned for more details! Read more →

• NY/NJ Baykeeper Receives Planning Merit Award for Living Shoreline in Raritan Bay
  

  Matawan, NJ—Matawan-based environmental organization NY/NJ Baykeeper has received the Monmouth County Planning Board 2018 Merit Award for its Living Shoreline in the Raritan Bay. The award, presented at the December 17 Monmouth County Planning Board meeting in Freehold, recognized the project as making a significant contribution to the advancement of planning in Monmouth County. NY/NJ Baykeeper was the pioneer of oyster restoration in New Jersey’s portion of the Raritan Bay, creating the Bayshore area’s very first living shoreline. In 2016, NY/NJ Baykeeper and the Rutgers University Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability installed a 0.91-acre Living Shoreline adjacent to Ware Creek Read more →