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

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​Local

• Pennington Council adopts ordinance phasing out single-use carryout bags
  
• ​Six months after settlement with Hoboken, ‘Shipyards’ developer wins in NJ Supreme Court
  
• ​Denville council adopts several ordinances through live stream
  
• ​Poll currently shows overwhelming support for open streets in Hoboken
  
• ​Lafayette students’ project shown at global film festival
  
• ​Montclair State to close NJ School of Conservation as coronavirus takes financial toll

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Around the country

• Renewables overtake coal over last 40 days – clean energy trumps dirty power
• ​Climate change unleashes interstate water wars
• ​NOAA to study COVID-19 impacts on environment
• ​The 10 electric cars with the longest range
• ​Plastic recycling is broken. So why does Big Plastic want $1 billion to fix it?
• ​EPA opts against limits on water contaminant tied to fetal damage
• ​'I'm scared': Study links cancer alley air pollution to higher death rates from Covid-19

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Opinion & analysis

• ​Ensuring underserved communities fully benefit from green economy

In New Jersey

• NJ joins other states in suing EPA over rollback of Obama-era wetland protection
  
• ​Virtual reality: Land use, zoning approvals enter uncharted waters as in-person meetings are forced online by COVID pandemic
  
• ​NJ gets $2.1M from EPA for cleanup, redevelopment of major polluted sites
  
• ​Water regulator defends OK of plan to build LNG export terminal in South Jersey
  
• ​Before reopening, flush internal drinking water system in buildings
  
• ​NJDEP again rejects permits for natural gas pipeline under Raritan Bay
  
• ​Survey: Most NJ voters support offshore wind

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 Global

• The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?
  
• ​50 years from now, many densely populated parts of the world could be too hot for humans
• ​Hands-free wireless electric vehicle charging for the 21st Century
• ​EVs and Gen Z: The road ahead
• ​Deforestation of Amazon rainforest accelerates amid COVID-19 pandemic
• ​The Amazon could be the cradle of new pandemics
• ​Pandemic’s transformative impact on clean energy: That’s up for debate

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