Big NJ environmental news stories of 2015

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Top NJ environmental stories 

• NJ judge approves controversial Christie, Exxon settlement
• Legislators bemoan 20-year delay in adopting Water-Supply Master Plan 
• Six Flags to cut down 18,000 trees to build NJ's largest solar farm 
• Senate overrides DEP rule seen as hurting water quality, increasing flooding
• Christie signs Liberty State Park bill; enviros concerned 
• 4 former NJ governors oppose Christie's Pinelands pick
• The clash over who gets open-space funding
• NJ officials try to stop Pilgrim pipeline
• Offshore NJ wind farm denied again; company to change details of plan
• Critics of new wastewater rule accuse DEP of giving in to developers

 
Top national and global stories 

• 196 countries approve historic climate agreement 
• Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline, leaving it in limbo
• ​2015 to be hottest year on record - until next year
• NJ leads, US follows with ban of microbeads in personal care products
• Congress extends solar and wind tax credits
• Glyphosate linked to cancer
• Beekeepers see 42% of US honeybee colonies die off in a single year
• Pope Francis, in sweeping encyclical, calls for swift action on climate change
• Obama unveils Clean Power Plan
• U.S. Geological Survey: Fracking waste is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in earthquakes

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NJ judge approves controversial Christie, Exxon settlement Read the story

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196 countries approve historic climate agreement Read the story

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