Press Releases
November 28, 2007
Brendan Byrne, Bill Bradley and Ron Jaworski Among Growing Supporters of Independent Clean Energy Group
An independent statewide coalition formed to educate the public about a range of clean energy solutions – including the need to re-license the Oyster Creek nuclear plant – announced today that former Governor Brendan Byrne, Senator Bill Bradley and NFL great Ron Jaworski have joined their growing and diverse membership of prominent New Jersey leaders.
In the last two weeks, the New Jersey Affordable, Clean, Reliable Energy Coalition (NJ ACRE) added 15 prominent new members to its ranks, said Dr. Edward H. Salmon, the Coalition's Chairman and former president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
"This Coalition was founded on the principle that our energy and environmental policies must be shaped by science, free of partisan politics and ideology," said Dr. Salmon. "That our membership spans the environmental, business, labor, academic, health and civic communities has enabled us to uphold that very important principle."
The latest members, also known as Distinguished New Jerseyans, to join NJ ACRE are:
• The Honorable Brendan Byrne - One of New Jersey's most highly respected public officials serving two terms as Governor of the State of New Jersey
• The Honorable Bill Bradley - Highly respected former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate and American hall of fame basketball player
• Ron Jaworski - One of the National Football League's great quarterbacks, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and presently serves as an analyst for "NFL Monday Night Football"
• The Honorable Anthony Cimino - A former freeholder, state legislator, and New Jersey Commissioner of Personnel in Gov. Florio's administration. Now president of the nation's 40th largest pure design firm, CMX Engineering.
• The Honorable James Davy - Served in the Governor's cabinet as Chief of Management, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services and now president of James M. Davy Associates LLC and senior vice President of the Alman Group LLC
• The Honorable Herb Klein - Former U.S. Congressman and NJ State Legislator.
• The Honorable J. Edward Kline - Former mayor of Brigantine and three-term member of the New Jersey General Assembly. He is currently President of Kline Construction and for 10 years, Chairman of the Atlantic City Board of Elections
• Kevin McCann - Secretary of the NJ State Bar Association, in line to become its president in 2012
• The Honorable Joseph A. Maressa - Who served 10 years in the New Jersey State Senate, has practiced municipal law for more than 50 years and sits on the board of the Atlantic City Convention Center
• The Honorable Barbara McConnell - A former member of the state Legislature, Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development, gubernatorial candidate and association executive
• The Honorable Thomas Pankok - Former freeholder, State Assemblyman, legislative representative for the NJ Association of Counties, and Chairman of the Salem County Democratic Party. Currently Chair of the Salem Hospital Board of Trustees and Secretary of the Delaware River and Bay Authority
• Sharon Schulman - Former Chief Executive Officer at the NJ Board of Public Utilities, now President and CEO of Aqua NJ, Inc., which provides drinking water and wastewater services to 150,000 residents in 20 municipalities across the state
• The Honorable Jack Tarditi - Former Mayor of the Borough of Haddonfield and past president of the NJ Conference of Mayor
• The Honorable Fran Witt - Well-recognized South Jersey leader who has served as a mayor and chairman of the Gloucester County Democratic Party
• Anthony J. Zarillo, Sr. - President of Anthony J. Zarillo, Sr., LLC. Retired after serving more than 32 years at the NJ Board of Public Utilities, the last 17 as its Chief Executive Officer
"Ensuring a clean environment for our children and our children's children is a worthy and admirable goal," said Tom Pankok, one of NJ ACRE's newest Distinguished New Jerseyans. "I am honored to be a member of this Coalition because if we are truly serious about fending off global warming, we must embrace all of our clean energy options -- including nuclear power which now provides more than 50 percent of New Jersey's electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions."
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The mission of the NJ Energy Coalition is to generate public support for the production and delivery of affordable, clean, reliable, American energy to help meet New Jersey's growing energy needs. The Coalition seeks to achieve this goal through increasing the public's awareness of the need to keep existing clean energy providers operational, to develop new affordable clean sources of in-state generation and to maintain a suitable transmission and distribution infrastructure for delivering electricity to our citizens.
For more information, please contact:
Bob Marshall
Phone:856-308-3656
bmarshall@njenergycoalition.org