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How to Prepare a Watershed Inventory Report for the MS4 Permit
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 12 noon
Register HERE

RCE is offering technical assistance to help meet the requirements of the MS4 permit.
This webinar focuses on Watershed Improvement Plans, specifically completing Phase 1 - the Watershed Inventory Report. 

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Drought Warning Action Wednesday, April 30th, Noon Via Zoom Meeting
Click here to register
Join us to Take Action NJ has experienced significantly below average rainfall and has been at a drought warning status since November 2024.
Join us to learn how Environmental Commissions and local officials can help educate the public about strategic water conservation efforts to help avoid or delay a drought emergency.

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Tuesday, April 29th, noon
Via Zoom Register Here 
Are you interested in starting a municipal food waste/compost recycling program? Learn how food waste recycling qualifies towards Municipal Tonnage Grant, hear from Millburn Environmental Commission’s successful municipal and school programs, and discover ways to support state legislation that can make composting easier for towns.

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2025 Fundamentals for Effective Environmental Commissions 


​Saturday, May 3
9am-11:30amTatum Park Holland Activity Center
144 Holland Rd.
Middletown NJ
Click here to register now!
Topics include:

• Native Plants/Pollinators, Tools & Resources
• Hands-on training on Site Plan/Development Plan Review
• Roundtables on current topics

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Environmental News 
​          Highlights
​Top news stories from past few weeks:​  

• He helped save the Pine Barrens in 1968. Now his help will never end.
• Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice
• Major $30,000 EV tax change from tomorrow despite pleas for reversal: 'Worst possible time'
• Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material, study shows  
• Trump cuts put another program at risk
• Calculate your flood risk at the Shore 
  
• Birds are changing their ranges in response to warming climate 
• Trump cuts put another program at risk
• Mapping Tool To Advance Solutions For Making Coastal Wetlands More Resilient
• Environmental advocates brace for possible rollback of PFAS standards
• Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024,
• 'They started nibbling at its head': the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice
• Thousands of bottle caps, plastic pieces littered New Jersey beaches last year
• Earth is losing land water fast — and it's changing sea levels and the planet's spin
• The Northeast bet big on offshore wind. Trump wants to halt the industry entirely
• New Jersey among states that want to make oil companies pay for climate disasters
• Scientists need more public funding to shield farming from climate change 
• Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
• As Philly mulls gas leaf blower ban, lawn equipment makers strut battery-powered stuff
• A Jesuit priest prefers prison over a fine to draw attention to climate change 
• Microplastics found in sea turtle organs raise concerns over species' survival
• State of the Birds Is Suffering – Especially for Shorebirds
• What Trump's tariffs mean for the renewable energy transition
• American Farmers and the USDA Had Finally Embraced Their Role in the Climate Crisis
• Climate change is fueling extreme weather and chaos in the jet stream
• Scientists say human-caused pollution may be masking the true extent of climate warming
• 'Getting Heavier': Climate Change Primes Storms to Drop More Rain
• Trump admin pulling nearly $4 million in funding from Princeton over climate-related programs
• Climate change education
• Why there likely won't be a coal resurgence in the US
• Chaos of Trump tariff war throws US recycling industries into uncertainty
• Countries agree to global carbon tax on shipping, opposed by Trump 

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 Nature Conservancy and Partners Protect 454 Acres   Learn More 

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Resiliency Projects in Peril
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Federal Agency Outlines $7.6 Bil Plan for Flood Protection in NJ
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