NJ Climate Superfund Act

The Climate Superfund Act is a bill (S3545/A4696) being considered in the NJ State Legislature that would have the largest fossil fuel corporations pay into a fund for climate adaptation projects to make our communities more resilient to the climate crisis.

Which Legislators Have Not Already Sponsored or Co-sponsored the Bill?

As of this writing, 18 out of 40 members of the Senate and 41 out of 80 members of the Assembly have signed onto the bill as sponsors or co-sponsors.

See the map below for which legislators in each of the state's legislative districts have signed onto the bill (each of NJ's 40 legislative districts has 1 Senator and two Assembly members).

Click here to open the map in a separate full-screen window.

Map last updated: 12/8/25. For the most up-to-date list of sponsors and co-sponsors, see the S3545 and A4696 bill pages from the official NJ Legislature site.

Map usage tips

To see which Legislative District you are in, use the magnifying glass to search your address, or disable the "Assembly Sponsors..." layer to view the underlying map.
If you already know your Legislative District, use the binoculars button to filter by Legislative District.
Click on a Legislative District to view a popup window for the contact information for that district's Senator and Assembly members.

Co-sponsorship updates

12/6/25: added Assemblywoman Carol A. Murphy (D) as a co-sponsor (sometime between 12/1/25 and 12/6/25, Assemblywoman Carol A. Murphy (D) was added a co-sponsor)
11/29/25: initial creation of map and table

NJ Climate Superfund Act Sponsors

Take Action: Contact your Legislators

Write a Letter

Use this Action Network form to automatically send a letter to your legislators based on your address. A template will be provided, but you are encouraged to modify it to add your own specific climate story.

WRITE A LETTER

If a legislator is:

already a co-sponsor of the bill, thank them for co-sponsoring it and let them know you want them to contact the Senate President or Assembly Speaker to move the bill forward.
not already a co-sponsor of the bill, ask them co-sponsor the bill.

Call your Legislators

You can find contact info for your state legislators via the map on this page or the official NJ Legislative Roster page.

Here is the contact info for our legislators (Senator John J. Burzichelli, Assemblyman David Bailey Jr., and Assemblywoman Heather Simmons) in Woolwich Township's Legislative District 3:

Glassboro office: (856) 226-3530
- Address:
  - 711 North Main Street
  - Glassboro, New Jersey 08028
Salem Office: (856) 279-2920
- Address:
  - 199 East Broadway, Suite G, First Floor
  - Salem, New Jersey 08079

FAQs

How does the fund work?

The bill assesses a "cost recovery demand" on "responsible parties" that:

the NJ Department of Environment of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) finds responsible for more than one billion metric tons of covered greenhouse gas emissions, and
pay NJ sales tax

How much each company pays would be determined by their proportional liability - how much of the covered emissions it emitted between 1995 and the enactment of the act.

The State Treasurer, in consultation with the NJDEP, is tasked with "obtaining and utilizing credible data or methodologies" to estimate the costs of the covered emissions to the state and its residents.

How do we know the climate damages and how much the fund would raise?

Recent peer-reviewed studies in the field of climate attribution science have been able to attribute how much a certain storm or extreme weather event was made worse by climate change.

For instance, a 2021 study published by Nature Communications found that sea level rise caused by carbon emissions contributed about $8.1 billion of the total damages from Hurricane Sandy and about $3.7 billion of damages to New Jersey.

For a map of attribution studies, see Carbon Brief's "Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world."

What kind of climate adaptation projects would be funded?

Examples of projects it would fund include:

flood protection projects
upgrades of stormwater drainage systems
defensive upgrades to roads, bridges, railroads, and transit systems
weatherization and energy efficiency upgrades and retrofits
upgrades to the electrical grid to increase stability and resilience, including the creation of self-sufficient microgrids

See the S3545 and A4696 bill texts for more examples.

Would this bill increase consumer costs?

According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in a letter to Governor Hochul for NY's Climate Superfund Act that was signed into law, the Climate Superfund would not be a cost shift to consumers since oil prices are set globally, and the payments on the fixed historical period would be borne by the responsible entities as a fixed cost, and therefore, “it would not affect future production costs.” NJ's Climate Superfund Act assesses the funds based on a historical period from 1995 to the enactment of the act (e.g. 2025).

This finding is also supported by the Fiscal Policy Institute which came to a similar conclusion.

Who supports this bill?

More than 100 groups and the Empower New Jersey Coalition, consisting of dozens of organizations including Sunrise Woolwich, is supporting the Climate Superfund Act. In addition to the list of legislative sponsors and co-sponsors in the NJ Senate and Assembly, more than 50 municipalities in the state have passed resolutions supporting the bill, including Woolwich.

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