EPA pledges to clamp down on pollution from heavy trucks
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - For the first time in 17 years, the federal government is planning to clamp down on a type of smog-forming pollution [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]
Federal, state officials tour Ringwood Mines Superfund site as cleanup plans take shape
DAVID M. ZIMMER / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Behind a chain-link fence and covered in secondary growth, the Superfund contamination zone hides in a former mining hotbed [go to article]
Court faults DEP in changes to radon rules
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - A state appeals court has faulted the Department of Environmental Protection for improperly revising rules on how it oversees [go to article]
EPA quietly telling states they can pollute more
RENE MARSH, GREGORY WALLACE and ELLIE KAUFMAN / CNN - The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly signaled it may allow states to release [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]
Senate passes ban on fracking waste in New Jersey
MICHELLE BRUNETTI POST / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - The state Senate voted Monday 30-5 to pass a bill banning fracking waste [go to article]
E-cigarettes: The new hazardous waste
MARI A. SCHAEFER / PHILLY.COM - Single-use plastic straws, bags, and coffee pods have captured the attention of the public and legislatures [go to article]
State legislators oppose proposed hazardous waste site
ANTHONY BELLANO / PATCH - State legislators have joined Burlington County representatives in voicing their opposition to a proposal by Elcon Recycling Services [go to article]
Port Authority adopts plans to cut its carbon emissions to address climate change
CURTIS TATE / NORTHJERSEY.COM - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is going all-in on the fight against climate change [go to article]
