While Long Beach Township supports reasonable climate adaptation policies, it believes the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection should take a common-sense, measured approach to enacting regulations.

“The NJDEP’s use of a sea level rise metric that has only a 17% chance of occurring 76 years from now is both a scare-tactic and unsound policy,” Mayor Joseph Mancini wrote in his Sept. 27 comments on N.J. PACT (Protecting Against Climate Threats).