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

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​Local

• Village wins grant for organic maintenance of playing fields
  
• ​Howell students create video to push for local ban on plastics 
• Jersey City to revisit plastic bag ban. Here’s what may change

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Around the country

• Delaware River experts hail environmental wins but warn of new climate threats
• ​6 ways the border wall could disrupt the environment
• ​Breathing polluted air shortens people’s lives by an average of 3 years, a new study finds
• ​Trump Administration says companies can 'incidentally harass' marine mammals
• ​Oil and gas companies want to drill within a half-mile of Utah’s best-known national parks
• Operator of power grid accused of overcharging utility customers billions of dollars
• Spring equinox: Will season's longer days, stronger sunlight, warmer air help kill coronavirus?
• ​6 ways the border wall could disrupt the environment
• ​With many restaurants shuttered, farmers rethink business models, shift to ‘over-the-fence’ sales

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Opinion & analysis

• Study faults PJM Interconnection for inaccurately forecasting energy requirements and sticking utility customers with the costs
• Shellfish growers can't afford to delay on climate action ​

In New Jersey

• NJ awards $2.5M in grants to combat harmful algal blooms
• ​Coalition calls for carbon cap-and-trade program across northeast, mid-Atlantic
• ​Toxic algae: NJ lake communities get $2.5M to battle blooms. But will it prevent closures?
• ​New Jersey's proposed plastic, paper bag ban has been resurrected, but will it become law?
• ​State to get millions for climate change strategies after rejoining regional energy initiative
• ​NJIT launches NJ Brownfields Assistance Center
• ​Murphy nominates eight to Pinelands Commission, NJ Highlands Council
• ​Coastal scientists prepare to retreat from field station threatened by rising seas
• ​NJ’s toxic chemical waste increased half-million pounds in 2018
  
• ​2019 a banner year for solar industry in nj triggered by ending of current program

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 Global

• Ottawa set to declare plastics as toxic substance
• ​Plastic that travels 8,000 miles: the global crisis in recycling
• Future VW electric vehicles will send power back to the grid
• ​Nuclear Regulatory Commission shows dry cask storage is safe – yet again
• ​An economic crash will slow down the electric vehicle revolution...but not for long
• ​South Korea to enact plastic import restrictions
• ​The climate crisis made Australia's wildfires at least 30% more likely, study finds
• ​UK gets its first fully electric avenue to charge EVs on the street
  
• ​Thai monks make virus masks from recycled plastic

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