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

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​Local

• This red tide might be good news for New Jersey oyster beds
• Petition to stop state's killing of red foxes on Jersey beach nears 80K signatures
• With nuke plant shutting down, NJ community inherits 1.7M pounds of waste
• The oldest weekly rodeo in America is in NJ And now, it's not going anywhere
• ACUA’S battery-storage system, first financed by NJ's Clean Energy Fund
• Old causeway among area’s paper straw pioneers
• Science march has political edge
• Shoreline restoration topic draws crowd to Cousteau Center
• South Orange, Chambers Design win award for sustainability best practices & planning
• Arsenic level leads to closure of parts of Clifton park

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Around the country

• NY City schools will pay $15 million for compostable cutlery
• Citizen scientists are the new community activists
• Climate change causing trees to bloom weeks earlier, researchers say
• How the energy industry’s wish list became the Interior Department’s to-do list
• Carbon markets pay off for these states as new businesses, jobs spring up
• A guide to the investigations faced by Scott Pruitt, EPA chief
• FERC reviews its policies for approving natural-gas pipelines
• Miami Beach's future is 'uncertain,' experts say, but sea rise pumps are a good start
• Texas city ditches politics for clean energy
• Latest climate threat for coastal cities: More rich people

In New Jersey

• Murphy bans oil drilling off NJ shore (and tries to stop Trump)
• Trenton’s 2018 NJ March for Science fuels anti-Trump sentiments
• With little fuss or fanfare, legislature passes clean-energy bills
• Clean vehicles face long, bumpy road to acceptance in New Jersey
• ​Survey: New Jersey residents name clean drinking water as top environmental priority
• Air pollution in New Jersey is so bad it could be dangerous to your health to breathe
• NJ moves into new era of environmental protection with Earth Week celebrations
• Analysts: New Jersey’s early RGGI exit cost the state millions
• New Jersey homeowners fight gas pipeline in federal court
• NJ couple awarded $37 million in talcum powder lawsuit
• State diverts $69M from VW settlement to general fund
• Report: Reducing NJ’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• PSE&G wants BPU to ok $1.9b plan to upgrade gas pipelines

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 Global

• Malaria infection creates a ‘human perfume’ that makes us more attractive to mosquitoes
• Venezuela is losing its last glacier
• Watching nature documentaries boosts happiness, says study
• China trash ban is a global recycling wake up call
• How the environment has changed since the first Earth Day

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Opinion & analysis

• The White House screws with scientists, and they're fighting back
• Full fracking ban within Murphy's grasp
• Earth Day started as political movement to save the planet from men like Trump
• A clarion call: Earth Day spirit found in everyday North Jersey environmental battles
• Will courts hold oil companies accountable for climate change disasters?
• Focus on sea-level rise will help hot-spot South Jersey respond

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