Most of Ford’s remaining pollution to stay in Ringwood under cheaper cleanup deal with...
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Federal environmental officials reached a $21 million settlement late Monday with Ford Motor Co. and Ringwood [go to article]
PFAS levels at NJ base 24,000 times higher than proposed federal standard – study
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Water sources at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst contained levels of toxic PFAS chemicals that were up to 24,000 times higher [go to article]
Newark mayor defends actions in city’s water crisis
DAVID PORTER / NJ HERALD - The mayor of New Jersey's largest city denounced comparisons Thursday between high lead levels affecting as many as 18,000 residences [go to article]
Air pollution: black, Hispanic and poor students most at risk from toxins – study
OLIVER MILMAN / GUARDIAN - Schoolchildren across the US are plagued by air pollution that’s linked to multiple brain-related problems, with black, Hispanic and low-income [go to article]
Funding for state pollution control dropped 12% in decade to 2018, study says
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Funding and staffing for pollution control by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection dropped [go to article]
NJ attorney general ramps up efforts to hold polluters accountable
JOANNA GAGIS / NJTV NEWS - The state’s dropping the hammer on ExxonMobil, at least that’s how Attorney General Gurbir Grewal characterized the six-count suit [go to article]
Take a deep breath. Is New Jersey poised to cut back on CO2 pollution?
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Warning that it is time to get serious about climate change, lawmakers yesterday approved a bill to clamp down on pollutants [go to article]
In towns with plastic bag fees, it’s ‘matter of changing old habits’
AVALON ZOPPO / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - Change doesn’t come easy. At least that’s what J.C. Byrnes, an employee at a Ventnor thrift shop [go to article]
N.J. awards $10M in Barnegat Bay watershed anti-pollution grants
JUSTIN AUCIELLO / WHYY - New Jersey is providing nonprofit groups, local governments, and state colleges and universities $10 million in grants to help improve water quality [go to article]
NJ’s gas pipes spring 10,000 leaks a year. They get more dangerous with age
JAMES NASH / NORTHJERSEY.COM - In the past 20 years, explosions along New Jersey's labyrinthine network of natural-gas pipelines have killed five people [go to article]
