NJ implements nation’s toughest PFAS standard
KYLE BAGENSTOSE / BURLINGTON COUNTY TIMES - New Jersey implemented the nation’s strictest groundwater limits for a pair of emerging toxic chemicals [go to article]
Tree planting program restores river health
MICHELE S. BYERS / NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - Here’s a not-too-fun fact. Eighty-five percent of New Jersey’s rivers are considered impaired [go to article]
The swap-a-fish program that traded tilapia for seafood contaminated by Agent Orange
REINA GATTUSO / ATLAS OBSCURA - As it glints in the afternoon sunlight, Newark, New Jersey’s Passaic River looks peaceful. But a plaque along the boardwalk has a warning [go to article]
FEMA knocks state plan to lessen stormwater runoff problems
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has faulted the state’s new rules to manage stormwater runoff — the single biggest [go to article]
A little help for New Jersey’s kestrels
MICHELE S. BYERS / NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - If you build it, they will come. That’s the hope for new nesting boxes for American kestrels, whose populations [go to article]
Upgraded classifications for 750 miles of NJ’s rivers and streams
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - For the first time in more than a decade, the state is significantly upgrading protections for 749 miles of rivers and streams [go to article]
A hidden scandal: America’s school students exposed to water tainted by toxic lead
JESSICA GLENZAAND and OLIVER MILMAN / THE GUARDIAN - When Shakima Thomas came home from her job as a Newark, New Jersey social worker in October 2018 [go to article]
Zombie deer disease is spreading across the country. N.J. may not be able to...
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - An infectious disease has plagued deer across the country, leaving the animals with holes in their brains and emaciated bodies [go to article]
Mountains in Ocean County? Yep. And 8,000 acres are being preserved for $15M
STEVE STRUNSKY / NJ.COM - In what environmentalists say is one of New Jersey’s biggest open space acquisitions in recent memory, Ocean County announced it had closed [go to article]
Criticizing inaction on lead in New Jersey school’s drinking water supplies
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Despite lead in drinking water supplies having been detected in hundreds of New Jersey’s public school buildings, advocates say there [go to article]
