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

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​Local

• Asbury Park bans release of helium balloons
• Paterson Environmental Commission sworn in
• Paterson buys 600 containers to revive recycling program
• Legionella found at all but 3 West Orange schools: officials
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection returns permit application for NESE pipeline project, citing deficiencies
• Jersey City and Parsippany-Troy Hills mayors come together to sign ordinance protecting and enhancing Boonton Reservoir
• Polluter caught dumping contaminated soil into Wyckoff well
• Officials celebrate launch of Boonton Reservoir recreation trail
• Experts: Bordentown’s water corrosive, potential cause of lead issue 

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Around the country

• Take a look at how quickly a forest can recover from fire
• Hurricane Florence: When climate change meets bad policy
• EPA to eliminate office that advises agency chief on science
• EPA resists court order to protect kids’ health
• Washington rolls back safety rules inspired by Deepwater Horizon Disaster
• Would an enormous storm surge barrier save NYC’s coast—or destroy it?
• Electric carmakers turn to Congress as tax credits dry up
• Utilities, carmakers launch campaign to cut US transportation energy use 50% by 2050
• Trump administration prepares a major weakening of mercury emissions rules
• Red tide is 'suffocating' marine life near Southwest Florida's shores
• Will America run short of seafood? This ocean farm could save us

In New Jersey

• Fresh impetus for energy-saving measures in NJ, but state has fallen far behind
• 9 of 10 hottest summers were in the last 20 years
• Lawmakers plan to ban plastic carryout bags, straws, food containers
• New report shows PennEast Pipeline not needed under any scenario
• Nearly-800 acre habitat in the NJ Pinelands is a refuge for animals
• Does NJ need stormwater utilities to stem polluted runoff and flooding?
• NJ shows nation how to get toxic chemical out of drinking water
• EPA approves $332 million cleanup of Meadowlands toxic waste

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 Global

• World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target
• Google’s new tool to fight climate change
• A wedding ring with a dirty little secret
• Denmark will help New York's plan to add offshore wind energy to the grid
• Camp Amazon: Inside the 'lungs of the Earth'

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Opinion & analysis

• A reckless scheme on auto emissions
• Electric cars could surge in NJ thanks to Gov. Murphy
• NJ shows nation how to get toxic chemical out of drinking water
• Gov. Whitman: I'm glad to see Republicans recognizing climate change. Now they must do something
  
• ​Trump says the planet's screwed, so let's burn as much fossil fuel as we can ​

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