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Committee releases bill offering CBT tax credit for anaerobic digestion facilities amid siting and environmental‑justice questions
Summary
A3577 would create a corporate business tax credit to incentivize construction of anaerobic digestion facilities to process food waste. Witnesses praised the policy but raised concerns about odor, siting, environmental‑justice thresholds and whether existing county facilities would be affected.
The Environment and Solid Waste Committee voted to release Assembly Bill A3577, which would provide a corporate business tax (CBT) credit to support development of anaerobic digestion facilities for processing food waste.
Testimony acknowledged the environmental benefits of diverting food waste from landfills and capturing biogas for electricity, but witnesses stressed siting, odor control, and environmental‑justice engagement for larger facilities. Allison McLeod of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters urged safeguards so that incentives do not bypass community engagement requirements in the state's cumulative impacts law for facilities that trigger permitting thresholds.
Industry representatives and the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce highlighted the technology's role in reducing greenhouse gases and called for clarity on whether incentives would apply to existing county facilities or only to new projects. Committee members asked staff to confirm how the bill would treat existing operations and whether the credit would capture residential and commercial food‑waste streams.
The committee moved to release A3577 as referred; the motion passed with six yeses and one abstention.
