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

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​Local

• Mussels 'as big as dinner plates' removed from former Hunterdon farm
• Shore town is first in NJ to offer curbside ‘plastic film’ recycling
• NJ Gov, local officials announce plan to address algal blooms
• Gardens making a splash in Woodbridge
• West Milford files complaint, blames Highlands Act for $500,000 in yearly losses
• Mantoloking NJ residents and climate change
• Hillsdale building razed due to toxic PCE chemicals left by former dry cleaning business
• Ocean City Flooding Committee raises awareness on city issues
• ​New dam removal to curb floods, boost water quality in Musconetcong River
• ​Eight-mile trail proposed to be built around reservoir
• ​NJ proposes diverting $20M in Sandy funds to improve Atlantic City infrastructure
• ​Franklin Twp. Environmental Committee member and compressor station task force receive Environmental Stewardship Awards
  
• ​"Shred Day" takes 7k pounds of shreddables, 54 bags of styrofoam in Hawthorne

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Around the country

• Land affected by Keystone pipeline leak bigger than thought
• 1,000 Google employees pen open letter demanding company action on climate change
• ​Ford takes on Tesla with debut of powerful Mustang Mach-E
• As climate risk grows, cities test a tough strategy: Saying ‘no’ to developers
• Air pollution is still killing thousands of people in the US
• ​New Trump administration plan could boost oil drilling on remote Alaska reserve
• ​How decarbonizing transportation can help reach US net zero emissions by 2050
• ​How stormwater affects your rivers
• ​Pennsylvania to fund research into fracking health dangers
• ​Big companies bet on cleaner power from pig poop ponds
• ​We can’t send plastic to China anymore. What happens to our recyclables now?
• How banning tiny plastic shampoo bottles and other amenities can affect hotels
  
• ​Former EPA Administrator Bill Ruckelshaus great American leader and mentor

In New Jersey

• Cherished Salem oak tree will live on. Every N.J. town to get seedlings to plant.
• ​State’s Beach-Nesting Birds Reports Point to Piping Plover Strides on LBI
• Stress, plastic additives in late pregnancy raise risk of premature birth
• What Happened to New Jersey’s Drinking-Water Watchdog?
• Phil Murphy wants to double offshore wind power goals for New Jersey
• DEP builds up shore to defend historic lighthouse from rising waters of Delaware Bay
• Will Murphy’s pledge of $13.5m, scientific expertise to fight algae blooms do any good?
• NJ Transit wins court battle with insurers for $400 million in Superstorm Sandy damage
• ​Scaling back state’s goals for electric vehicles
• ​NJ in landmark deal to acquire 1,400 acres of premium open space
• ​NJ gets D- rating in climate change report
  
• ​Rivers, lakes show some gains, some losses in water quality

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 Global

• Millions of people eat octopus- here's why we shouldn't
• ​Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
• Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach, including rope, plastic and glove
• Climate change poses threats to children’s health worldwide
• Holland covers hundreds of bus stops with plants as gift to honeybees
• Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn
• Amazon rainforest sees biggest spike in deforestation in over a decade
• Oxford names ‘climate emergency’ its 2019 Word of the Year
• ​Here's one way to cut down on plastic pollution: Eat your bowl
  
• ​Marine pollution is creating a new kind of plastic-rocks

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Opinion & analysis

• If NJ makes energy efficiency a priority, we can create more jobs
• Trump's EPA is checking off an anti-environment wish list. Here's who will suffer.
• ​A proven climate warrior comes to NJ, extols virtues of wind
• ​Climate warnings: Don’t blame the scientists
  
• ​For Thanksgiving, a watershed moment in South Jersey​

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