Tag: New Jersey
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New Jersey Approves $446 Million Solar Power Proposal
The renewable energy plan includes loans for residents and businesses and building new solar installations.
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Town hangs dead vultures from trees to warn others to keep away
With the help of the USDA, Bridgewater, New Jersey, is tackling its vulture problem in one of the spookiest ways possible.
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5 Public Gardens Damaged by Hurricane Sandy
These 5 gardens lost ancient and historic trees, and are in need of donations and volunteers to recover from Hurricane Sandy.
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12 Ways to Help Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
How to volunteer, where to donate, and more handy post-Hurricane Sandy info.
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9 Records Blown Away by Superstorm Sandy
She may not have caused the most property damage, but the superstorm extraordinaire holds some impressive records.
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New Jersey Beats California For Most New Solar Power Installations
In the first three months of 2012 the Garden State installed roughly 20 MW more solar power than the Golden State.
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Man Relocates 30,000 Bees Found Living in an Attic
Up until recently, Victoria Clayton and her boyfriend were under the impression that they were the only ones sharing their charming home in Cape May, New Jersey -- but they couldn't bee more wrong.
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EPA Supports Environmental Justice for New Jersey Farm Workers
The EPA has announced a grant for a Latino-led farm worker organization in New Jersey to educate migrant workers about the risks of pesticide exposure.
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Mayor's Plan to Rid Town of Skunks Just Doesn't Smell Right
Mayor Martin Pagliughi of Avalon has set about removing the animals from his island borough, and it's caught the attention of state wildlife officials who say the action could be illegal.
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Known Carcinogen Spreading Through Groundwater in New Jersey, Hundreds at Risk
The same toxic stuff Erin Brokovich discovered in Hinkley is leeching into a New Jersey community. This is exactly why we need good, well-upheld environmental protections.
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Does New York City Really Need a New Natural Gas Pipeline, At the End of The High Line?
With all the rightful focus the environmental community is placing on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you'd be forgiven for not hearing about another contentious proposed pipeline. There are echoes of Jane Jacobs versus Robert Moses here.
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New Jersey Governor Vetoes Fracking Ban - Wants One Year Moratorium Instead
So New Jersey might not have a ban on fracking after all. Though the state legislature approved a ban on the natural gas extraction process at the end of June, governor Chris Christie has vetoed the bill, sending it back to
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9MW New Jersey Solar Roof Will Be Biggest in the USA
When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France, I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these
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Black Bear Wanders into Suburbia Looking For Love
Photo: cbrown1023 / cc Earlier this week, residents in East Brunswick, New Jersey reported seeing a black bear wandering through their suburb, so wildlife officials were dispatched to pick him up -- but the bear proved no easy catch. For three days the
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New Jersey Legislature Votes To Ban Fracking
We knew this might be coming for the last three months: New Jersey has become the first state in the US to enact a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The vote in the state senate was 31-1 and in the
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The Hypocrisy of Chris Christie, "New Jersey's No. 1 Clean Energy Advocate"
During Chris Christie's 2009 campaign for governor, he boasted that he would be the state's "number one clean energy advocate". And ever since then, he's courageously done everything in his power to ...
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New Jersey Governor Pulls Out of Regional Climate Initiative
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, officially described as the "first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" with the goal of a 10-percent reduction from the power sector by 2018,
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New Jersey Governor Wants to Put Environment Funds Toward Road Development (Update)
If New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gets his way at a budget hearing today, state funds that had been dedicated to clean energy will be redirected to highway-widening and other fossil fuel-promoting development projects;
