Rain gardens in NJ: Small projects help alleviate stormwater problems
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - A community rain garden may seem like a minor contribution to the multibillion-dollar overhaul of New Jersey’s water infrastructure [go to article]
Environmentalists fear Trump water rule could impact Delaware, other area rivers
FRANK KUMMER / PHILLY.COM - First came rollbacks of air and fuel emissions rules. Now, the Trump administration has proposed a rule it says will boost economic growth [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]
New chemical substitutes threaten to undermine NJ’s cutting-edge rules on PFAS
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New Jersey’s nation-leading efforts to protect the public from a class of toxic chemicals in drinking water are being threatened by the emergence [go to article]
Water system managers plan for upgrades, but funding is scarce
LEAH MISHKIN / NJTV NEWS - New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Catherine McCabe says the way responsibility is divvied up among [go to article/watch video]
Govs. Florio and Whitman: We’re working together to help tackle N.J.’s water infrastructure woes
JAMES J. FLORIO and CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN / NJ.COM - It has been a tough year for New Jersey's water infrastructure [go to article]
Meet the four-legged detectives inspecting your water
RAVEN SANTANA / NJTV NEWS - Since 2016, over 565 acres of the Navesink River in Fair Haven was prohibited from harvesting shellfish due to high levels [go to article/video]
Drinking water: 1.5M in NJ served by utilities that failed tests since Flint
RUSS ZIMMER and ANDREW FORD / APP.COM - Newark isn't the only place in New Jersey where the purity and safety of drinking water has been called into question [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]
Newark’s water breaches levels for dangerous contaminant. And nearby towns are drinking it, too.
MICHAEL WARREN and KAREN YI / NJ.COM - First it was lead. Now it's a likely carcinogenic chemical. Newark has again violated a federal standard [go to article]
