EPA, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Senator Booker, Congressman Pallone and the Community Food Bank of NJ Team Up to Promote the Environmental Importance of Hunger Action Month

EPA Press Release:

EPA, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Senator Booker, Congressman Pallone and the Community Food Bank of NJ

Team Up to Promote the Environmental Importance of Hunger Action Month

Contacts: EPA, Jennifer May-Reddy, may.jennifer@epa.gov, cell phone 646-369-0039 and BJ’s Wholesale Club, Maria Fruci, mfruci@bjs.com, cell phone 781-686-7724.

(Edison, NJ – September 19, 2014) - On Monday, September 22, in observance of Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign to mobilize the public to take action on the issue of hunger in America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck will be joined by Senator Cory Booker and Congressman Frank Pallone at the BJ’s Wholesale Club in Edison, New Jersey to announce an important step in protecting the environment and alleviating the burden of hunger for local individuals, children and families in need.

Who:        Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator

U.S. Senator Cory Booker

                 U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone

Doug Schiefelbein, BJ’s Wholesale Club General Manager in Edison, NJ

                 Tristan Wallack, Community Food Bank of NJ Food Sourcing Supervisor  

                 Edison, NJ Mayor Thomas Lankey

When/Where:

                 Monday, September 22 at 2 pm

                 BJ’s Wholesale Club of Edison

1000 US Highway 1
Edison, NJ 08817

Parking is available on-site

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