Earlier this month New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced three actions the state is undertaking to defend environmental protections and protect the health of residents in the wake of the new federal leadership. “These filings,” the Department of Environmental Protection notes, “come at a time when the incoming Trump Administration has threatened to reverse science-based regulations that protect clean air and water.”

As Platkin remarked, “New Jerseyans don’t want commonsense environmental regulations overturned in favor of industry at…