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

---

​Local

• Lead in New Jersey water: Towns pressure Suez to speed up pipe replacements
• Berkeley Heights announces new E-waste & recycling programs for residents; recycle unwanted electronic equipment & Styrofoam
• West Milford takes suspended construction official to court
• The 16 towns that tax you the most for open space preservation
• This NJ town wants to be a haven for monarch butterflies
• Officials working to correct Trenton water contamination issue
  
• ​Margate stores to give out reusable bags

---

Around the country

• How small cities around the country are fighting to save recycling
• Green pinstripes: Yankees hire environmental scientist
• This map shows how badly climate change will impact each county in the US
• Pittsburgh water authority charged criminally over lead
• DEP says EPA didn’t consider many health risks when approving PFAS replacements
• How the geography of climate damage could make the politics less polarizing
• K Street profits from drinking water fears
• Oregon bottle deposit system hits 90 percent redemption rate
• The most and least popular US states for hybrids and EVs, according to CarMax
• ​Lyft introduces 'Green Mode' to put riders in EVs, hybrids
  
• ​Trump's other wall plan is also terrible for the environment​

---

Opinion & analysis

• NJ Gov. Phil Murphy should get on with protecting the Pinelands
• New utilities would help NJ fight flooding and pollution
• A day without water: Why infrastructure matters
• Why we can’t separate justice and sustainability in the food system
• Infrastructure bill is not a 'rain tax'

In New Jersey

• Solar power made more expensive by NJ rules; how can we change that?
• Panel OKs spending bill that boosts role of nonprofits in preservation projects
• Coastal Climate Change Commission bill clears assembly committee
• Falcons are back: The fastest animal on the planet continues to soar in New Jersey
• Why engineers use different barriers to protect NJ coastal towns
• Gottheimer to DEP: Dumping is not recycling
• Rutgers helps offshore wind firms predict coastal breezes
• Environmentalists raise concerns about salting roads during winter months
• No, NJ residents won't pay a 'rain tax.' But there may be fees to solve runoff problems
• Taking a harder look at greenhouse-gas emissions in NJ
• Another expert casts doubt on need for NJ to subsidize nuclear plants
• ​If Murphy wants to be NJ's Captain Planet, he’ll need to overcome Christie’s legacy first
  
• ​Rutgers profs to congressional committee: 'climate change is real'

---

 Global

• EU proposes ban on 90% of microplastic pollutants
• A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, report finds
• Climate change first became news 30 years ago. Why haven’t we fixed it?
• Scientists to create new 'chemical noses' to rid the environment of industrial pollutants
• World heading for warmest decade
• Climate change is opening a new era in Arctic shipping

---

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