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

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​Local

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• Summit residents and merchants commit to reducing plastic straws
• Newark's water breaches levels for dangerous contaminant. And nearby towns are drinking it, too.
• ​Drained Lake Hopatcong reveals mysterious rock bridge to abandoned Liffy Island
• ​Religious leaders bless electric cars, cite benefits for cities
  
• ​Newark mayor defends actions in city's water crisis

Around the country

• Science candidates prevail in US midterm elections
• ​US judge bars Trump administration from OKing fracking off California coast
• ​Federal judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline, saying Trump administration review ignored ‘inconvenient’ climate change facts
• The wheels on these buses go round and round with zero emissions
  
• ​California's Camp Fire becomes the deadliest in state history

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Opinion & analysis

• It's not too late for Gov. Murphy to overhaul the Pinelands Commission
• Murphy must take real action to make up for lost time on climate change
• What offshore wind could do for economy and jobs in New Jersey
• Two words and a big threat missing from 2018 National Defense Strategy: Climate change
• How workers, local unions can take the lead on climate change
• NJ voters way ahead of Washington on renewable energy

In New Jersey

• Earth's wildlife is disappearing, report shows. It's happening in NJ as well.
• ​Top NJ Officials urge EPA not to abandon Clean Power Plan;call EPA’s new proposed energy rule unwise, dangerous
• ​Here's what we voted to spend our money on, Jersey. (And what we said 'hell no!' to)
• ​No food for 2 weeks: These protestors are fasting over climate change
• ​American shad return to NJ river after 173 years
• ​Port Authority of NY/NJ becomes first transit agency to target Paris Agreement
  
• ​NJ Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit​

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 Global

• More protection: UN says Earth’s ozone layer is healing
• ​Climate Change: Arctic 'no safe harbour' for breeding birds
• ​Global warming is messing with the jet stream. That means more extreme weather.
  
• ​Spain plans ban on petrol and diesel cars, fossil fuels subsidies

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