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

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​Local

• The DEP to determine health of Navesink River for shellfish harvesting
• AC Power granted another approval to develop solar on landfills in New Jersey
• NJ beach litter: Fewer cigarette butts because more people are vaping
• Feds said fumes from NJ Superfund site weren't harmful. A new report says otherwise.
• 10 Paterson schools get solar panels in energy saving project
• EPA takes closer look at Superfund groundwater cleanup near Wanaque Reservoir
• Community pauses development to create green space
• DEP permit would let treated sewage be dumped into Rockaway Creek
• Frankford seeks to keep out ‘dirty dirt'State orders agency to curb noxious fumes from Meadowlands landfill

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Around the country

• Trump’s order to open Arctic waters to oil drilling was unlawful, federal judge finds
• Air pollution science under siege at US environment agency
• Wild fire warning issued for Eastern Pa., NJ, Del.
• Trump to sign order seeking to clear gas pipeline hurdles: Kudlow
• Puerto Rico has just passed its own Green New Deal
• What makes a catastrophic flood? And is climate change causing more of them?
• States, military clash on cleanup of toxic chemicals
• Welcome to beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia: Home to one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in US history.​

In New Jersey

• Coalition gets antsy, urges rebate program for electric vehicles
• Drone video reveals charred aftermath of 11K-acre forest fire in NJ Pinelands
• Murphy undoes a pair of executive orders issued by Christie
• NJ forest fire: Fires are as much a part of the Pinelands as the pines themselves
• As weather warms, watch for invasive spotted lanternflies
• Ramapo River and other NJ waterways may get more protection from pollution, development
• ​Clean water projects: DEP Agrees additional state funding needed
  
• ​Forest fire that burned 11K acres in NJ Pine Barrens started in area known for illegal bonfires
• How to give monarch butterflies a head-start this spring
• NJ proposes strict new drinking water standards for cancer-linked chemicals
• New York just agreed to ban plastic bags. Is New Jersey next?​

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 Global

• Climate change is having a major impact on global health
• The waters are rising, the floods are coming. What are we doing to save ourselves?
• How climate change is fueling the US border crisis
• UN experts denounce 'myth' pesticides are necessary to feed the world
• Pesticides and antibiotics polluting streams across Europe
  
• ​Plastics 'leading to reproductive problems for wildlife'
  
• ​Confronting solar geoengineering: What you need to know

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Opinion & analysis

• Ferry depot or waterfront park for Hoboken?
• Murphy keeps his promises on environment — Let’s stay the course
• Report on Edgewater fumes is troubling on many fronts
• Opposition to the PennEast gas pipeline is not going away
• A new tool to combat local pollution

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