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

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​Local

• Bill would rename Middlesex County wildlife refuge for Peter Barnes III
• Preserved Millville farm hosts celebrating state officials, environmentalists
• Piscataway residents sue zoning board to stop warehouses next to school, park
• Spotted lanternfly nymphs spotted in Cranbury
• The Madison Environmental Commission is offering free milkweed plants to residents
• South Plainfield Adopt-A-Spot Program is alive and wel

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Around the country

• Offshore wind farms show what Biden’s climate plan is up against
• FERC OKs gas pipeline projects without greenhouse gas impact statements
• Sens. Schumer, Brown unveil plan to replace polluting buses with clean ones
• ​Engineers raise alarms over the risk of major explosions at LNG plants
• ​As storm season begins, report details potential damage to polluted sites
• The western drought is bad. Here’s what you should know about it.
  
• ​Why electric vehicles are 'greener' than ever in all 50 states

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In New Jersey

• Horseshoe crabs, phenomenal shorebirds helped by allies in South Jersey
• Murphy Administration celebrates 60th anniversary of DEP Green Acres, nation's longest-running state conservation program
• Murphy Administration invests $386M in water infrastructure, creating 4600+ construction jobs
• Rutgers, offshore wind firm to study impact on clams off NJ coast
• Clean-car rebate program gets second shot
• After six decades saving space in NJ, Green Acres program recalibrates
• New jersey LCV endorsements make pro-environment slates in competitive primary races clear
• NJ wants to pay you to buy an electric vehicle. But it hasn't said when it will resume doing so.

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 Global

• Developer abandons keystone xl pipeline project, ending decade-long battle
  
• ​15 Chinese elephants are on a long march north. Why, no one knows.
• Will charging electric cars ever be as fast as pumping gas?
  
• ​Global treaty to regulate plastic pollution gains momentum

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Opinion & analysis

• Environmental justice: From our ancestors to our children 
  
• Pick up the pace of electric vehicle rollouts
• Strong recovery must include federal investments in transportation, housing and climate change
• There's a way to manage warehouse mania in New Jersey 

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