Pallone accuses White House of trying to suppress report on PFCs in drinking water
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Lawmakers and environmentalists are urging the federal government to release a report recommending tight new limits on a class of chemicals [go to article]
600 acres in Vineland to become new nature preserve
NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION - One of the largest remaining pieces of open land in the Upper Menantico watershed - 600 acres along the Menantico Creek [go to article]
More than 100,000 people want to keep fracking out of the Delaware River basin....
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - Fracking is still big business in Pennsylvania. More than 7,000 wells in the Keystone State have been sunk into the Marcellus Shale [go to article]
As public concern about PFAS climbs, EPA urged to set enforceable standard
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Clean-water advocates and U.S. lawmakers pressed the federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to set an enforceable [go to article]
Groups of coyotes worry residents, but experts say they are not a likely a...
JAMES M. O'NEILL and SARAH NOLAN / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Residents of Saddle River have been forced to share their borough in recent months [go to article]
Hunterdon County preserves 500 more acres of farmland
MIKE DEAK / USA TODAY -Seven Hunterdon County farms, totaling 494 acres, will be preserved after the county purchased the development [go to article]
Nature Conservancy, Partners Protect 477 Acres in Green Creek
CAPE MAY COUNTY HERALD - The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the American Littoral Society, state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Green Acres [go to article]
Former Trentonian reporter indicted for smuggling protected turtles out of New Jersey
ISAAC AVILUCEA and PENNY RAY / THE TRENTONIAN - Former Trentonian reporter David Sommers has found himself caught up in the same type of oddball story [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]
Trapping foxes to save plovers sets off showdown at Jersey Shore
RICK ROJAS / NY TIMES - Red foxes can be found all over New Jersey, wandering out of the woods and poking though garbage at dusk in search of a meal [go to article]
