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

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​Local

• Following ban on single-use plastic carry out bags, shoppers adjust in Paramus
• NJ group focused on waterway pollution from animal waste, storms
• Edison Green Team distributes free NJDEP DFS TRC tree saplings
• Berkeley Heights passes the 10,000 pound milestone for thin film plastics collected
• Bayonne’s ban on plastic bags, straws goes into effect Jan. 1
• Liberty Middle School holds simulated climate summit
• How GL can be doing its part to reduce climate change

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Around the country

• PennEast, way behind schedule, asks for two more years to build pipeline
• Climate change: If you worry about global warming, the next car you buy should be electric
• Delaware River conservation gains $9.7 million in federal funding
• Environmental coalition sues Trump administration over chemical disaster rule rollback
• Pa, NJ and Del. join pact to curb transportation carbon emissions
• Conservationists welcome more federal funding for Delaware River Basin

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Opinion & analysis

• New Jersey's environmental wins and losses of 2019
• Land preservation benefits all, so burden of it should be shared
• New Jersey needs to charge ahead with electric vehicles
• One year after oyster creek shutdown, 3.1m tons of new carbon emissions
• The state we’re in 12/27: Still the Garden State – over 236,000 acres preserved
• Better public drinking water standards are a must for New Jersey

In New Jersey

• In New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change
• New state legislation would ban single-use plastic bags across New Jersey
• NJDEP study predicts dramatic sea level rise along Jersey shore
• New Jersey lawmakers trying to spark electric vehicle industry
• Thought about buying an electric car? NJ may soon offer one of the nation's best incentives
• What matters in 2020 as NJ state tries to shift to clean energy? Money, for a start
• Here’s all the NJ towns & counties that have banned plastic bags
• Weinberg forming committee to address ‘toxic climate for women in NJ politics’
• DEP adopts stormwater runoff rule, will make it public later
• NJ seeks grant proposals for local projects combating harmful algal blooms
• Enviros’ 2020 goals for NJ include ban on new fossil fuel plants
• What’s the state of our state fish?
• NJ may fund Climate Change Resource Center at Rutgers
• NJ towns, groups receive state Green Acres funds for parks, open space​

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 Global

• A plateful of plastic: Visualizing the microplastic we consume
• Airports and airlines want travelers to ditch their plastic water bottles
• Over 1 billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires

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