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Climate activists are accusing NJ Transit of going back on a plan to build a non-gas powered plant in Kearny to provide rail systems like the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail with emergency electricity in case of power outages. NJ Transit picked a site on the Koppers Coke peninsula in Kearny to house the gas-powered NJ Transitgrid project after Hurricane Sandy knocked out the grid running trains in the area in 2012. But environmentalist groups and local governments began pushing back in the summer of 2019 against what they considered an environmentally-unfriendly project, and Gov. Phil Murphy shelved …