PFAS control advocates highlight FDA data showing chemicals in food
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New Jersey campaigners for tighter curbs on toxic PFAS chemicals got a boost from new federal data showing the chemicals are present in foods [go to article]
Lawmakers move to fine-tune law for cleanup of contaminated sites
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The Legislature is working to fine-tune what some regard as one of the state’s most successful environmental initiatives: the cleaning up [go to article]
Testing shows these waves are sick, in totally the wrong way
WAYNE PARRY / WASHINGTON POST - Most surfers know it’s best to avoid surfing near pipes that dump storm water into the ocean soon after a storm [go to article]
As summer approaches, air pollution is getting worse in NJ
DAVID MATTHAU / NJ 101.5 - Now that the weather is starting to warm up, the state Department of Environmental protection is asking state residents [go to article]
Plastic pollution: Will New Jersey towns ban all plastic bags regardless of size?
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - When Hoboken's plastic bag ban went into effect in January, customers were still able to carry their groceries home in — yes — plastic bags [go to article]
NJ’s incinerators are spewing toxins in already polluted low-income cities
JEN URSILLO / NJ 101.5 - A new study by The New School in New York City finds that 80% of incinerators in the United States are located in areas known as environmental justice communities [go to article]
Paramus, the retail colossus of New Jersey, looks to ban plastic bags
STEPHANIE NODA / NORTHJERSEY.COM - You can shop till you drop, but you won't be getting any plastic bags to tote your merchandise, if a proposal to ban plastic bags [go to article]
There are drugs in your water and no one knows how much
DINO FLAMMIA / NJ 101.5 - When you grab a glass of water from the kitchen sink, how much medicine — that's not yours — are you ingesting with each sip? [go to article]
Citing fumes, judge orders last Meadowlands landfill to be temporarily closed
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - The last active landfill in the New Jersey Meadowlands will be shut down for at least two months due to noxious fumes [go to article]
Incinerators in Camden, Chester among nation’s most polluting, report finds
CATALINA JARAMILLO / WHYY - Until very recently, Philadelphia burned its recyclable plastic at an incinerator in Chester, one of Pennsylvania’s poorest communities [go to article]
