Trenton, NJ - A broad coalition of over 50 environmental, faith, labor, student and consumer organizations representing hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents renewed their call for a ban on fracking in New Jersey by submitting a letter to New Jersey Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney asking him to hold a vote on Governor Christie's veto of NJ's fracking ban.

Recent findings have driven the call to override the governor's veto of our fracking ban. The EPA has recently reported that chemicals associated with fracking have been discovered in a Wyoming Aquifer and a seismologist in Ohio who has been studying earth quakes are likely caused by injection wells used to dispose of fracking fluids.

Early last summer, the New Jersey State Legislature overwhelmingly approved a permanent ban on fracking, making it the only state in the nation to do so. But Christie vetoed the legislation shortly after. In November, fueled by massive opposition to fracking-the public submitted over 70,000 comments opposing fracking and over 1,000 people demonstrated one the steps of the Statehouse.

"Legislators are about as far removed from their next election as they can be, so if not now, when?" said Dave Pringle of the NJ Environmental Federation.