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

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​Local

• North Jersey park had four times too many deer, high-tech drone finds. What happens now?
• Bordentown City Mayor Lynch honored for preservation work with major award
• Union County residents can become citizen scientists and protect waterways
• Amphibians on the move!
• City of Long Branch: The Long Branch Green Team introduces PlanetCivic!
• Caldwell's first Women Impact Award winners announced
• Pohatcong quarry wants OK for operations generating 60 truck trips each weekday, or as many as ...
• NJ town launches pilot food recycling program
• Ridgewood's food recycling program could cut way down on trash, save money and reduce methane
• NJ students and their peers in Italy drawn together to help a fragile city

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Around the country

• Low oxygen levels in Delaware River emphasizes need for more protection, environmental group says
• Sea-level rise in 20th century was fastest in 2,000 years along much of East Coast
• FERC takes a step forward on environmental impacts
• Cutting nitrogen flows into Delaware River would boost economy, report says​
• 'Further' collapse at Piney Point phosphate plant spurs ongoing environmental concern
• Ban on invasive plants ‘great win’ for Delaware conservation
• Activists hail Massachusetts law as crucial step on environmental justice
• Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan to include Gateway Tunnel crucial to NJ, source says
• US targets 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind, & how we get there​​

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In New Jersey

• 'Bottom-up' plan underway to catalogue NJ's vulnerable coastal communities
• Electric school buses are expensive but these 2 ideas could make getting them easier
• Warehouse sprawl shows need for regional approach to planning, advocates say
• Here are five of the most harmful invasive insects that have wreaked havoc in New Jersey​
• NJ pension fund must end all investment in fossil fuels, climate activists contend​
• Dead fish could signal problems for NJ waterways
• NJ tells high court pipeline co. can't condemn state land
• Here are NJ projects that could get help from Biden's infrastructure plan (including Gateway)
• NJ eyes work to protect coastline, reduce carbon emissions
• NJ's bus fleet should go all-electric, advocates say
• New Jersey Conservation Foundation submits Supreme Court brief in PennEast Pipeline case

 Global

• Scientists spot a 'space hurricane' for the first time
• Microplastics are affecting melt rates of snow and ice
• The fascinating, mysterious science of combining farms and solar panels
• Japan just recorded its earliest cherry blossom bloom in 1,200 years. Scientists warn it's a symptom of the larger climate crisis

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Opinion & analysis

• Offshore wind supports NJ coastal economies
• Gas export terminal on Delaware River moves NJ away from its renewable resources goal
• New Jersey already said no to a gas pipeline once. We must say no to NESE again
• Celebrate 50 years of organic farming
• Eager for light rail line in South Jersey. Here's why
• NJ must use offshore wind farms
• Biden goes big on planes, trains, and climate change

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