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

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​Local

• Canine detectives doggedly inspect the water quality
• Environment commission pushes for deer assessment
• Belmar sees return of two endangered species to beachfront
• State DEP refuses to test Vernon dumping site for contamination
• NJ Attorney General files lawsuit to force cleanup of Palmyra site
• Residents object to developer’s open space grab
• Toxic Secrets: NJ denies controversial groundwater cleanup plan in Pompton Lakes

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Around the country

• American Farmland Trust California launches “Women for the Land” to empower women landowners
• 100,000 pages of chemical industry secrets gathered dust in an Oregon barn for Decades — until now
• Do you know what you’re breathing?
• Utility giant’s CEO says it’s ‘unfortunate’ that Trump administration has ‘climate deniers’
• Trump rolls back climate change rule that restricted new coal plants
• Trump rule would limit EPA’s control over water pollution
• Harvard Quietly amasses California vineyards—and the water underneath

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Opinion & analysis

• This NJ congressman just changed how government works 
• ​It’s time to rethink how we move people and goods around New Jersey
• Climate change is real and it’s going to cost us billions
• Govs. Florio and Whitman: We’re working together to help tackle NJ's water infrastructure woes
• We can pay for a green new deal
• Opposition to proposed paper bag tax in Atlantic Highlands
• Nine years after Nor’Ida, NJ still needs flood insurance reform
• New Jersey LCV statement on BPU hearing on increasing renewable energy
• Stop fossil fuel projects now​​

In New Jersey

• 6 things that will drastically change our lives in NJ if we do nothing about the climate crisis
• ​New chemical substitutes threaten to undermine NJ’s cutting-edge rules on PFAS
  
• ​Murphy's soccer team won't relocate to land where trees could be chopped down
• Smith bill to establish timeframe for DEP to create a strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants
• Pumping up state spending on open space, land preservation, parks
• Citizen science opportunity - Gene Flow Analysis
• Take a deep breath, is New Jersey poised to cut back on CO2 pollution?
• California Camp wildfire is a warning to fire-prone NJ Pinelands
• Codey, Bateman bill to fund state acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes advances
• NJ politicians, environmentalists oppose seismic testing for offshore oil
• 50 groups call on Murphy to stop fossil fuel project​

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 Global

• ‘A kind of dark realism’: Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve
• World Bank to invest $200bn to combat climate change
• ‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.
• Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017

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