Red Bank, NJ – Following a summer of extreme weather, Senator Vin Gopal, Red Bank Mayor Billy Portman, and other local officials will join advocates and community members Monday to call for urgent passage of the NJ Climate Superfund Act. The event will highlight the growing human and economic toll of extreme weather in New Jersey and urge state leaders to hold Big Oil accountable by requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by climate change.

Political support for the NJ Climate Superfund Act (S3545/A4696) has grown throughout the year, with 52 legislative co-sponsors and 53 municipalities, and two counties adopting resolutions in support of the bill. There is now growing pressure on the legislature to pass this legislation by the end of the legislative session in January.

This legislation, modeled after laws passed in New York and Vermont, would make large fossil fuel companies, not taxpayers, pay for much-needed projects to ensure that New Jersey is resilient and affordable in the face of future climate impacts.

WHAT: Rally & press event on extreme weather and the NJ Climate Superfund Act

WHEN: Monday September 22, 2025 at 3 pm.

WHERE: Riverside Gardens Park (West Front Street) Red Bank, NJ, 07701

WHO: State Senator Vin Gopal

Assemblywoman Margie Donlon

Assemblywoman Luanne Peterpaul

Red Bank Mayor Billy Portman

Advocates from Clean Water Action, Food & Water Watch and EmpowerNJ

Others TBD

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