Welcome to ANJEC News
Brought to you by the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions, supporting local environmental action in New Jersey since 1969 ~ www.anjec.org

---

---

2023 Climate
Mini-Series
​
Join ANJEC and its sponsors in sharing insights & current data on Climate Change Impacts and Solutions.

Wednesday, May 31, 7:00pm
Offshore Research & Monitoring:
What we know and what we’re learning
 
Tuesday, June 20th, 7:00pm
Wind Project Updates – Orsted & Atlantic Shores
 
Click here to register

---

---

Join us for our NJ Wind Works Rally: Harnessing the Wind for a Lasting Renewable Future on Saturday June 10, 2023 in Long Branch, NJ.
​
When: Saturday June 10th, 12-3pm ET
Where: Great Lawn at Beachfront North, Long Branch, NJ

---

---

Does your municipality, county, or utility suffer from flooding, energy disruption, heat island effect, stressors to aging infrastructure, drought, or other hazards? Then join us for this free workshop 
Register HERE; June 7

---

---

​RUTGERS Climate Change Resource Center
New Jersey Climate Change Research Symposium 2023
Friday, June 2, 8:30 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
Cook Student Center, Rutgers University
59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901Registration: $75
REGISTER FOR EVENT

---

Environmental News Highlights
​Top news stories of the past two weeks:​ ·        

• ​The warehouse juggernaut by the numbers
• G7 calls on all countries to reach net zero by 2050
• Fed power-plant proposal could aid NJ
• EPA looks to toss 'deceptive' plastics recycling symbol 
• Retiring gas-powered cars 
• NJ is number 2 state in country for certain contaminants in drinking water
• UN's plan to reduce plastic pollution by 80%
• Recycling wind turbine blades by breaking them down into their constituent chemicals
• Endangered Species Day and Related Legislation
• America's big shift to green energy has a woolly mammoth problem
• The invasion of New Jersey is underway
• Scientists Discovered Microbes Feasting on Plastic in the Arctic. It Could Help Fight Pollution
• Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in US
• Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says
• Big Oil, small court
• NJDEP Launches Interactive Dashboard on Water Infrastructure Spending
• First-Ever Youth Environment Advisory Committee Proposed by EPA
• Abandoned New Jersey paper mill now powers its community with solar
• How adding bugs to food system 'could be game-changer' to fight climate change
• More e-buses for NJ schools
• Biden's Clean Energy Expansion Is Facing Local Resistance
• In a win for Delaware and Hoboken, Supreme Court rejects Big Oil again
• NYC skyscrapers turning to carbon capture to lessen climate change 
• Hertz is going electric, with big implications for EV and auto market
• 8 unexpected side effects of climate change 
• Plastic pollution could be cut by 80% by 2040, says UN report 
• Rural clean energy to get $11B Inflation Reduction Act boost
• EPA's New Standards Will Accelerate Transition to Electric Vehicles 
• Incredible shrinking lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions of gallons annually
• Sheep can kill invasive giant hogweed
• U.S., Canada corridor to supply places to charge electric vehicles 
• Pine Barrens plants – the rare, the weird and the wonderful ​
• Lead water lines being replaced in Ocean City
• More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil over climate change
• Recycled plastic can be more toxic and is no fix for pollution

More News

---

US Green Energy Poised for "Staggering" Growth   learn more

---

Black Communities Overburdened by Power Plant Pollution May See Relief     learn more

---

​Tour Starts with Announcement of Grants for GI Projects in Hudson-Raritan Watershed   learn more

---

World on Track to Warm by 1.5 Degrees Celcius  learn more

---

Five Pests in NJ That Threaten our Plants and Forests  learn more​

---

​Free subscription
Get the ANJEC News  every 2 weeks
via email! SUBSCRIBE!

---

---