News Highlights
A quick review of top environmental news stories from the past 2 weeks

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​Local

• Protecting New Jersey from sea level rise: The future of the Meadowlands
• Montgomery video series focuses on local government, volunteers
• South Plainfield adopts a "smoke-free" ordinance
• Rapid lounging makes its debut in South Orange
• Pompton Lakes DuPont site needs Superfund status, say advocates
• Meadowlands gas pipeline plans criticized by environmentalists
• Highlands Council public hearings will be held in Hopatcong, Oxford
• Haworth discusses regulating tree removal on private property
• Complete streets project divides Millburn residents, business owners
• Sea level rise threatens Cape May and its vulnerable visitors
• Berkeley Heights closing in on Green Community Challenge Goal
• Glen Rock promoting Energy “DEAL”, savings of up to 12% annually
• Pinelands Commission passes Wharton map of roads OK for cars, trucks

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Around the country

• Delaware River watershed: It's healthy, but significant threats are looming
  
• ​Iconic but depleted monarchs make a comeback, at least for a summer
• Katrina. Sandy. Harvey. The debate over climate and hurricanes is getting louder and louder.
• Texas chemical plant sued for millions, first responders charge gross negligence
• First, Florida. Next, the nation.
• Fish spill: Gov. Inslee issues ‘emergency’ ban on new pens after farm spills Atlantic salmon into the Pacific
• Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’
• How Congress ignored science and fueled antibiotic resistance
• Food waste becomes delicious meals with an agenda at Rooster Soup
• Here's what solar energy research is going to look like under Trump
• Harrowing storms may move climate debate, if not GOP leaders
• Houston EPA lab set to close
• Three Mile Island fights once again for its nuclear survival
• Trump administration moves to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling studies

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In New Jersey

• ​New Jersey eyes rejoining northeast’s carbon trading program
• PSE&G gets sign-off to extend energy efficiency programs
• Oyster industry learning curve: Coexisting with red knots, crabs
• Is NJ finally getting smarter about smart meters?
• NJ’s Whitman blasts Trump’s EPA
• North Jersey water use down significantly this summer, a year after drought
• New Jersey's bad storms getting worse, climate change reports say
• Sunny outlook for NJ’S solar sector, which continues to add capacity
• Coalition hopes to usher in era of electric vehicles in New Jersey
• Pinelands pipeline passes, what's next?
• This 'fire bird' is back in NJ for the first time in almost 30 years; here's how it happened
• State DEP awards over $9M in grants for 12 water projects

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 Global

• China's Xi slams unwillingness to combat climate change
• Leading scientist on Irma: ‘Climate change effects are no longer subtle’
• Mosquitoes, carbon monoxide and chemicals are big post-Irma health concerns
• Pope launches thinly veiled attack on Trump, saying: 'History will judge climate change deniers'
• An infrastructure for charging electric vehicles takes shape
• China to US: Please stop sending us your junk
• Unprecedented levels of nitrogen could pose risks to earth's environment

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Opinion & analysis

• Climate-change denial a present danger
• Better option for Pinelands pipeline
• Now it's personal: Trump's EPA is jeopardizing the Delaware watershed 
• NJ commission should reject pipeline through the Pinelands
• What we know about the climate change–hurricane connection
• On hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and me
• Pinelands Commission must fulfill its mandate with pipeline
• To help New Jersey, Congress should invest in science
• America doesn't care about climate change because we elected Trump? Hogwash!
• New Jersey lagging on planning for sea level rise
• Stay strong on pipeline battles
• Tell Christie: We shouldn't risk oil trains exploding near schools
• Funding for wildlife conservation a necessity, not a luxury 
• Trump's EPA cuts will pollute NJ's drinking water

The views expressed in these articles do not necessarily represent positions held by ANJEC.