A joint legislative committee heard the impact of climate change and ways to mitigate it from invited speakers who spoke about how the state can ...
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The attorney general is also reviewing federal court records to understand why Florida is exempt from offshore drilling while New Jersey’s request was denied.
Three months after the EPA announced the price tag for cleaning up a Superfund site in Newark, the company that bought polluter Diamond Alkali went ...
The Passaic River's poisoned. Could the guilty corporations be using federal bankruptcy laws to get out of paying for the cleanup? With anti-pollution regulations under ...
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is sending dollars from pollution settlements back into the community to build up the waterfront around the Lower ...
A holiday rush to pass measures on salary hikes and outside income for the state's top tier. Could one of them torpedo your newspaper? A ...
The EPA announced it will get dozens of companies to pay $1.4 billion to clean up toxic waste they dumped into the lower eight miles ...
It's one of the costliest Superfund cleanups in history. Polluters must pay more than $1 billion to dredge the Passaic River mud poisoned by mercury, ...
In the pennies on the dollar Exxon deal the judge calls it reasonable. Critics threaten to appeal, concerned not enough money will actually be spent ...
After months of litigation, a judge ruled that the $225 million dollar Exxon settlement is fair despite the $8.9 billion originally requested from the state.
Stocks have tanked and the global slide could end a sustained six-year-long market rally. Expect to have your bag checked at the movies. Increasing gun ...
When heavy rains occur, excess water combines with waste and flows into our waterways.
The full scope of Exxon contamination. A change to Greek life. Rutgers bans on-campus parties. Shopping for property tax credits in Ocean. And Princeton hosts ...
The settlement with Exxon waives its responsibility for pollution from leaks and spills at hundreds of local gas stations across New Jersey.
Big names already on the Christie Presidential Prep team. Debate over who can prescribe psychotropic drugs. The postal service's on time delivery. This year it's ...
NY/NJ Baykeeper Executive Director Debbie Mans says that public lacks the engagement and knowledge needed to better protect New Jersey's waterways.
New texts and emails in the bridge scandal. New concerns over the damage this winter may be doing to our waterways. And a new bill ...
Environmentalists are concerned that the abundant use of road salt this winter will adversely affect waterways.
Damage from Hurricane Sandy caused heavy damage at the Passaic Valley Sewage Commission's Newark treatment facility.
A 750-foot stretch of the Passaic River in Newark is less toxic than it was a year ago thanks to dioxin being removed.