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Hour of Action: 2025 Lame Duck 
Priorities
Wednesday, December 3 at Noon (via Zoom)
Click here to register

​ We have limited time to get critical policy actions passed. ANJEC has identified key regulations and legislations that will strengthen environmental protection and restoration while building healthier more resilient communities.

ANJEC has identified FIVE Priority Actions for this years Lame Duck Session

Visit ANJEC's Alert Page for More Information!

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Public input on the the Rancocas Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan is needed. Join us for upcoming meetings

December 3: (6:30 PM) -Evesham Municipal Bld (984 Tuckerton Rd) For Berlin Twn., Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Voorhees
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​December 8: (6:30 PM) -Pemberton Twn Senior Center (300 Brook St, Browns Mill) For Pemberton, Pemberton Boro, Southamton
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If you live in the Rancocas Watershed (East of 295) please take this Survey

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

• Murphy Administration Awards Nearly $8 Million In Water Quality Restoration Grants - NJDEP
• Murphy Administration Invites Local Governments And Nonprofits To Apply For Parks And Open Space
  
• Grants
• World 'very likely' to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
• 'This is the future!': inside the next generation of electric cars that fly and drive themselves
• Researchers issue warning after making alarming discovery deep in Amazon rainforest
• Why a fast-shrinking Antarctic glacier has sparked fears of 'catastrophic' sea level rise
• When Managing Fall Leaves, Community Should Consider Regenerative Alternatives
• Trump Can Reconsider Permit for Offshore Wind Farm, Judge Rules
• 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business
• Settlement for 60,000 in PFAS case
• COP30: Keep people, not profits and power, at heart of negotiations
• Companies hit the brakes on EVs, laying off thousands of workers
• The US led the world to reach a huge climate deal. Then, it switched sides.
• Ten years after it was signed, what has the Paris Agreement on climate change achieved?
• Delaware Riverkeeper sues DRBC over Gibbstown LNG port permit extension
• Pollution in the sea: solar radiation turns synthetic garments into an invisible source of microplastics
• Environmentalists vow continued fight against natural gas pipeline through New Jersey
• World leaders gather for COP30 meetings in Brazil, seeking climate change solutions
• Delaware River Basin gets weekend clean-up
• Climate tipping points are close: scientists urge radical action before it's too late
• NJ restaurants recycling discarded oyster, clam shells to rebuild coastal reefs
• Germany, Spain commit $100 million to climate change adaptation plan
• At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics
• Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for climate
• The world isn't ready for the electricity surge that's coming
• China is developing the world's most ambitious network to transport its clean energy

More Local, National, World News HERE

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