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

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​Local

• Montclair has 250 wildlife habitats – but needs more, group says
• Efforts to return oysters back to the Navesink River – Take the survey
• Branchburg farm, one of 3 of its kind, is supporting sustainability — one lettuce head at a time
• NJ on sidelines as city goes after big oil
• Hopatcong's Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan 2020
• Save the planet at the community tree planting even

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Around the country

• Mezcal is more popular than ever—why that’s bad news for bats
• Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis
• Companies Expect Climate Change to Cost Them $1 Trillion in 5 Years
• Overcoming scorn for science
• Colorado Wildfire Grows Into Largest in State History
• Study: Tighter border policies leave migrants vulnerable to effects of climate change

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Opinion & analysis

• Paterson's parks must be a priority in order to move our community forward

In New Jersey

• No gas-powered cars, no heating oil for homes. Climate report calls for major action
• 80×50 Report: Climate change is adversely impacting NJ now
• Last of the NJ diamondback terrapins have been released for the year
• Initiatives on climate change, transit OK with most in NJ — poll
• NJ to push for public backing on climate action with new regulations
• NJBPU launches campaign promoting opportunities from New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program™ that save residents money and reduce energy use

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 Global

• Warming has killed half the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, study finds. It might never recover.
• Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year
• Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted
• ‘Hijacked by anxiety': how climate dread is hindering climate action
• Hidden Beneath the Ocean’s Surface, Nearly 16 Million Tons of Microplastic
• Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet
• The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown
• Pope sounds Climate alar

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