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Big NJ environmental news stories of 2015

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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