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

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​Local

• NJ Supreme Court: Meadowlands landfill to stay temporarily closed amid complaints of fumes
• Sandy Hook cancels all its summer concerts due to piping plover
• ​Mercer County to hold meetings on Bicycle Master Plan
• ​2nd Middlesex County water inspector arrested, now in South River
• ​Parsippany proposes ban on single use bags at retail establishments
• ​Montclair business owners speak out on plastic bag ban
• ​Another power plant is proposed for the Meadowlands, this time by NJ Transit
  
• ​Oyster Creek shutdown in NJ could leave high taxes, giant casks of dangerous radioactive waste
• NJ picks developer for wind farm off Atlantic City

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Around the country

• EPA chief will focus on ocean trash, not climate change, at upcoming global summit
• Counting the costs of pipeline projects for Delaware River Basin
• ​Naturalists renew calls to halt horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay
• ​New York State reaches landmark deal on Green New Deal-style climate bill
• ​Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants
• Trump’s UN nominee breaks with the president on climate change
• State of Alabama permitted 3M to release toxic chemicals into Tennessee River for years
• ​White House tells agencies they no longer have to weigh a project’s long-term climate impacts
• Delaware River Sojourn promotes conservation, nurtures sense of family
• ​Maine bans single-use plastic grocery bags by Earth Day 2020
  
• ​With more storms and rising seas, which US cities should be saved first?

In New Jersey

• Middle Township's Robert Jackson again nominated to Pinelands Commission
• ​What will it take to chart a clean-energy future for NJ?
• ​Governor Murphy announces adoption of rules returning New Jersey to Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• ​Rutgers University, Duke Farms partner on natural solutions to climate change
• ​Edison’s great-grandson condemns lightbulb efficiency standard rollback
• ​Climate change making flesh-eating bacteria more common in NJ waters, study says
• ​Planning a better CHANJ for New Jersey’s wildlife
• ​Saving New Jersey from the rising tide

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 Global

• Planet is entering ‘new climate regime’ with ‘extraordinary’ heat waves intensified by global warming, study says
• Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
• ​National climate emergency declared by Canada’s House of Commons
• ​India's heatwave turns deadly
• ​Paris wants to grow ‘urban forests’ at famous landmarks
• ​Shutting down plastics at the source
• ​Rising temperatures ravage the Himalayas, rapidly shrinking its glaciers
• ​Japan wraps everything in plastic. Now it wants to fight against plastic pollution.​

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Opinion & analysis

• The road ahead for New Jersey’s climate leadership
• ​NJ needs to encourage, protect private habitat for wildlife
  
• ​Let’s not use such tame words to describe a climate crisis

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