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

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​Local

• Glen Rock Green Team interns show-off bottle-free boro hall filtration system
• Roselle Park launches reusable bag campaign
• Invasive plants in Galloway area
• Lackawanna Plaza hides a secret brook
• Deal Lake beset by toxic scum, recreation halted
• EPA proposes enhanced cleanup for Combe Fill South Landfill in NJ. Public hearing scheduled for August 22

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Around the country

• Map zeroes in on  pollution in Delaware River Watershed
• Renewable energy in Minnesota receives a battery boost with Connexus project
• Trump inaccurately claims California is wasting water as fires burn
• Home values grew most in markets with strictest land use regulations
• New York’s first electric moped rental program is scooting riders around in style
• US needs 14 million plug-in cars to meet Paris Agreement by 2025
• Blue-green algae bloom in St. Lucie River 10 times too toxic to touch, DEP reports
• Scientists spent years on a plan to import this wasp to kill stinkbugs. Then it showed up on its own
• EPA to “Veto” Its Own Veto Authority under the Clean Water Act?

In New Jersey

• Rare Pinelands plant gets boost from prescribed burn
• Feds might quash state plan to have residents bail out nuke plant
• Federal move could undermine Murphy clean-energy policies
• Offshore wind: NJ, Phil Murphy bet on clean energy, but who will pay?
• Praise and concern over NJ’s plan to sue over pollution
• Trump clean-car rollback could mean dirtier air for NJ
• State goes after polluters for cleanup costs, most aggressive action in years
• Shortleaf pine project restoring good tree for a hotter NJ
• State advised to reject PSE&G clawback of revenues from customers
• Diesel buses stink. Are electric buses the solution for NJ cities?
• NJ Pinelands Commission votes down clearing trees from around Bass River fire tower

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 Global

• Scorching summer in Europe signals long-term climate changes
• EU: Wildfires show impact of climate change
• Auto suppliers retool to chase electric vehicle bonanza
• Pollution is slowing the melting of Arctic sea ice, for now
• Study: EVs will have 20% of global mileage share by 2030

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Opinion & analysis

• Stop the Garden State from becoming the Pipeline State
• Fish consumption advisories still alarming
• Few municipalities in NJ will create stormwater utilities, but some should

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