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 Sample Letter to Gov. Corzine on Diesel Emissions GreenFaith invites you to print a copy of the letter below
to sign and send to Gov. Corzine. Do it today! The Honorable Jon Corzine Dear Governor Corzine: I am asking you to help clean up New Jersey’s air and protect the health of all New Jerseyans by issuing an Executive Order requiring state contractors to retrofit their diesel-powered on and off road vehicles. I am writing this letter in cooperation with GreenFaith, New Jersey ’s interfaith environmental coalition. GreenFaith believes that the earth is a gift to us from God, that every person has a right to a healthy environment, and that environmental protection is a moral responsibility. I agree, and hope that our state can create and implement policies that turn the latter two statements from beliefs into action here in our state. As you know, last election day New Jersey voters passed Ballot Question 2 to begin reducing diesel pollution. This will result in the allocation of funds to retrofit the most heavily-polluting school buses, transit buses, and garbage trucks in New Jersey, eliminating up to 400 tons of diesel soot pollution a year – roughly 10 percent of New Jersey ’s total diesel pollution. This is a good start. We need to keep moving forward. We want your help. A study by the national Clean Air Task Force reports that to bring New Jersey into compliance with Federal Air Quality standards for diesel emissions, these emissions need to drop by 75%. Until that happens,
I ask you to help us win the fight to eliminate diesel emissions as an environmental health threat in New Jersey . Please commit to issuing an Executive Order requiring all state contractors to retrofit their diesel-powered on and off road vehicles. Sincerely, Name: Address: City, State, Zip: << Back to Diesel Emissions in New Jersey 
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"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
words, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,'
motivate me to include the struggles against environmental
racism and economic injustice in my lifelong commitment to
social justice activism. No group of people should be forced
to bear the disproportionate burdens of having incinerators,
landfills, sewage treatment plants, oil refineries, and other
polluters in their communities because of the color of their
members’ skin or income level."
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