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

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​Local

• This man makes his living foraging and selling wild plants to fancy NJ restaurants
• Hoboken Green Fair offers residents' consumer products to reduce environmental impact
• 2018 Camden Environmental Summit focuses on parks, flooding
• Borough of Chatham pilot program for organic lawn care
• Watering during a drought begins with setting priorities
• Livingston requests hearing on proposed pipeline activity adjacent to Township
• Grants will fund Hawthorne's "Gateway to the Passaic River" project
• Is a natural-gas power plant in the works for the Musconetcong River?

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Around the country

• ​McDonald's to test plastic-straw alternatives in U.S. later this yearTrump plan to prop up nuclear, coal to cost consumers billions?
• The chemical industry scores a big win at the EPA
• Bob Murray drafted 6 orders on coal, climate for Trump
•  Courts deal blow to EPA over Clean Air Act
• As PUC decision nears, Mariner East foes rally to call for total shutdown 
• Trump taps conservative Washington insider to lead key White House environment office
• Pruitt grants Oklahoma leniency to dispose of toxic coal ash without federal oversight

In New Jersey

• ‘Greens’ urge murphy to clamp down on CO2 emissions from power plants
• Why are so many turtles crossing the road? Cops say -- let them get to the other side!
• This powerful NJ Republican could have voted to block drilling off the Jersey Shore. He didn't.
•  A change of name, not mission, for ‘bank’ that funds clean water across NJ
• Bill requiring agencies to establish online outlet to report lead testing results clears Assembly panel
• DEP commissioner lays out green agenda for business leaders
• Sea level rise: Jersey Shore town flooding predictions; $10B at risk
• Could climate change erode real estate markets in coastal New Jersey?
• Bateman bill to minimize state capitol’s ‘carbon footprint’ advances

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 Global

• Africa’s strangest trees are stranger than thought—and they’re dying mysteriously
• How humans and rising seas affect each other
• Vancouver approves ban on plastic straws, foam cups and containers
• Will Norway's electric plane take off?

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Opinion & analysis

• Grocery bags and takeout containers aren't enough. It's time to phase out all single-use plastic
• We can meet Paris climate goals as governors take the lead
• Tapping Canada’s oil sands
• Kudos to Jersey City pols for introducing plastic bag ban
• Weather is getting worse and our infrastructure can't handle it. Now what?

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