How an overhaul of federal flood insurance could impact the Jersey Shore in 2020
AVALON ZOPPO / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - Pat and Alonzo Bailey live in a modest, one-story house two blocks from the bay in Bungalow Park [go to article]
Burlington County Freeholders still wrestling with pipeline issues
DAVID LEVINSKY / BURLINGTON COUNTY TIMES - The pipeline has become one of the trickiest issues inherited by the new Democratic-controlled freeholder board [go to article]
$119 Billion plan to protect NY/NJ from another Sandy raises concerns over impact, cost
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Despite its enormous price tag and concerns about its environmental impact, the federal government is still considering a project [go to article]
Trash once marred Jersey beaches, but today’s worry is climate change
DINO FLAMMIA / NJ 101.5 - Three miles of ocean beach closed. On the Jersey Shore, a summer to forget. Troubled times at the shore [go to article]
Threat of lawsuit halts vote to derail controversial Pinelands pipeline
STEVE STRUNSKY / NJ.COM - A vote by a state panel that would have derailed a natural gas pipeline proposed for the New Jersey Pinelands was tabled on Friday, after lawyers [go to article]
Lawmakers were warned a huge fire could hit Pinelands, then one did
DAVID MATTHAU / NJ 101.5 - Last month, New Jersey lawmakers were warned in a special legislative hearing the Pinelands is a fire-danger ticking time bomb [go to article]
DEP permit would let treated sewage be dumped into Rockaway Creek
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The state is moving ahead with a much-litigated permit that would let developers discharge treated sewage into Rockaway Creek [go to article]
11,600-acre Pinelands wildfire caused by humans, investigators say
AVALON ZOPPO / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - A forest fire that burned more than 11,600 acres of the Pinelands was caused by humans in a remote section of the forest [go to article]
NJ forest fire: Fires are as much a part of the Pinelands as the...
RUSS ZIMMER and KALA KACHMAR / APP.COM - Fires are a necessary part of renewal in New Jersey's Pinelands, although controlled burns are preferable to the blaze [go to article]
New details as forest fire now 10,000 acres, smoke spreads
TOM DAVIS / PATCH.COM - New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy warned that the forest fire raging through much of the state on Sunday expanded to 10,000 acres while smoke [go to article]
