Senate candidate Tammy Murphy fighting with governor husband about controversial project

New Jersey Senate hopeful Tammy Murphy publicly disagreed with Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D-NJ) plan for a controversial gas-fired power plant in Newark on Tuesday.

Tammy Murphy, who is running for a Senate seat currently held by embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), said she has not spoken to her husband, the governor, about the project but that she personally did not approve of the plant’s location. 

Murphy said the city already has three gas-fired power plants, so it does not need a fourth, and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s new plant should be built elsewhere. The city also has an incinerator and heavy diesel truck traffic.

“I oppose the PVSC plant,” Murphy said at a press
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