NJ Transit scraps plan for gas-fired backup power plant, cheering environmental justice advocates

New Jersey's public transit agency said Friday it is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by natural gas, cheering environmental justice advocates who targeted it and several other power plants in largely minority areas. NJ Transit said it is redirecting $503 million in federal funding that would have been used to build the backup system, called the TransitGrid Microgrid Central Facility, to other resiliency projects scattered around northern and central New Jersey.