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

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​Local

• Bernardsville rain garden reduces stormwater, protects Mine Brook
  
• ​Madison Environmental Commission polls community on plastic bag ban
  
• ​Long Branch bicycle route revisitedFellowship Village creating legacy for Godmother of NJ Pines, Candace Ashmun
  
• ​Possible lifeline for New Jersey School of Conservation as takeover is sought
  
• ​Environmental Commission announces "What I Love About Hawthorne" online poster contest
  
• ​New trail would let bikers, walkers travel 11 miles from Montclair to Jersey City — car free

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Around the country

• US House passes Moving Forward Act
  
• ​Dominion, Duke ax Atlantic Coast Pipeline
  
• ​Plastic-Free July: How apparel brands are leveraging recycled plastics
  
• ​Designing an end to a toxic American obsession: The lawn
  
• ​COVID-19 resources for outdoor volunteering
  
• ​Problem Solvers Caucus endorses bill to ensure public lands are protected and preserved
  
• ​Fracking firms fail, rewarding executives and raising climate fears

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Opinion & analysis

• Rice calls for inclusive use of parkland
• A plea to save the New Jersey School of Conservation
  
• ​What can we do with plastic?
  
• ​NJ economic recovery and green jobs can address climate change threat​

In New Jersey

• Two steps forward, one step back: New Jersey Permit Extension Act of 2020 signed into law just as NJDEP staff are furloughed
  
• ​Bill seeks to clean air in low income communities
  
• ​Does PFAS exposure make you more vulnerable to coronavirus? NJ senator wants a study to find out
• The urgency of delivering environmental justice — and clean energy — in New Jersey
  
• ​Nonprofits plan ‘green infrastructure’ to help fight algae blooms in NJ lakes
  
• ​New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection suspends New Jersey Natural Gas SRL pipeline permit
  
• ​Climate change in New Jersey: warmer and wetter

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 Global

• Botswana investigates 'mysterious deaths' of 275 elephants
  
• ​Six in 10 fish species could face reproductive failure as temperatures rise
  
• ​Why single-use plastics get in the way of climate justice
  
• ​The intersection between self-driving cars and electric cars
  
• ​Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise
  
• ​Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon

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