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

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​Local

• National Contest Challenges Hillsborough Residents to be Water Wise
  
• ​Cherry Hill Sees Increase In Trail Use Amid Pandemic
  
• ​Hoboken Files Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change
  
• ​Hey Boomer! Changing demographics is stated reason for Township Committee to change land use zone on Route 35
  
• ​Upcycled T-Shirt Project Paves Way for Girl Scout Silver Award
• Mayor Fulop and City Council Set to Restore Historic Reservoir for Complete Resident Access ​

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Around the country

• Update on electric vehicle adoption across U.S. cities
• More Join Attack on Trump Water-Rule Rollback
  
• ​Big problems for smallest Great Lake: More precipitation, warmer temperatures and controversial regulation plan upend life along Lake Ontario
• EPA chief criticizes Democratic governors, vows to concentrate on cleaning up vulnerable communities in a second Trump term
  
• ​Historic wildfires rage across Pacific Northwest: Washington town devastated; helicopters rescuing stranded California hikers

In New Jersey

• Greenstein Bills Create "Climate Vulnerability" Plans in Municipalities
• NJ Files New 'Environmental Justice' Lawsuits Amid COVID-192
  
• West Nile Virus Cases Reported In NJ
  
• ​Pipeline battle in New Jersey may be heading to the Supreme Court‘
  
• ​NJ Has One of the Worst Sea-level Rises in the World
  
• ​’Bipartisan Effort Leads To Conservation Victory For New Jersey
  
• ​It’s time to get rid of plastic bags for good
  
• ​New Jersey Says Cleanup Coming to Liberty State Park

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 Global

• Study Found Plastic In Every Seafood Sample It Analyzed
  
• ​Why Bioplastics Will Not Solve the World’s Plastics Problem
  
• ​Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz
  
• ​Big Oil shrinks during coronavirus pandemic
  
• ​Plastic food packaging outpaces cigarette butts as most abundant beach trash

Opinion & analysis

• Rebuilding After COVID-19, Our Chance for an Equitable Clean-Energy Economy
  
• ​Clean Water Is the Path to Healthier, More Equitable Communities

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