NJ joins other states to block Trump attack on Clean Water Act
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New Jersey is joining with 13 other states and the District of Columbia to oppose the rollback of a key provision of the Clean Water Act [go to article]
Learn how changes to the Clean Water Act could hurt your region before it’s...
KAITLIN SULLIVAN / POPULAR SCIENCE - The Environmental Protection Agency has made moves to shrink national water protections for two years [go to article]
Trump EO would stop states from using water quality to block pipelines
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week to hinder states from blocking unwanted oil and natural-gas pipelines [go to article]
Cheers – and some caution – for reclassification of NJ’s rivers and streams
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - The state’s plan to upgrade hundreds of miles of New Jersey’s rivers and streams with new protections to preserve water quality [go to article]
Newark, NJ, has a lead contamination problem in its water
ADAM WERNICK / LIVING ON EARTH - Hundreds of thousands of citizens may be at risk of lead exposure from their tap water in Newark, New Jersey [go to article/audio]
The places across N.J. where too much lead has been found in the water
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - It’s a problem that doesn’t discriminate -- it’s been detected all across the state, in rural, suburban, and urban areas [go to article]
Clean water projects: DEP agrees additional state funding needed
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Within the next few years, the state will run out of matching funds to obtain hundreds of millions in federal dollars for crucial clean water [go to article]
NJ’s lead water pipes a billion-dollar concern without a solution
MICHAEL SYMONS / NJ 101.5 - At a Thursday budget hearing at the Statehouse, a lot of concern though no ambitious solutions about how to deal with lead leaching [go to article]
Hudson river shows signs of rebound after decades as New York’s sewer
OLIVER MILMAN / THE GUARDIAN - New York’s Hudson river, once known as America’s Rhine in a nod to the famous European waterway, played a pivotal role [go to article]
Lead in NJ water: Suez to remove 50,000 feet of lead pipes this year...
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - About 25 percent of the lead pipes in Bergen and Hudson counties will be replaced this year under a plan unveiled Thursday [go to article]
