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Gov. Phil Murphy announced a proposed investment of nearly $100 million on community recreation projects through the Green Acres and Urban Parks programs. Sadly, the project total includes roughly $10 million in funding for artificial turf playing...

The Delaware River was once chock-full of Atlantic sturgeon, but populations of these legendary leaping fish have plummeted more than 99% since the 1800s.

To achieve a meaningful reduction in emissions, we need to investigate alternatives to gasoline. Researchers have proposed the use of metal-organic frameworks to store hydrogen. Hydrogen, a green fuel if produced by clean energy, produces a...

Updates on Drive Electric Earth Day, electric school buses, New Jersey Transit issues, and Advanced Clean Truck and Advanced Clean Cars II rules.

A cow burps between 250 to 500 liters of methane a day or roughly 137,000 liters a year. Worldwide, cows release about 120 million metric tons of methane per year. Methane can last in the atmosphere for 12 years and is responsible for around 30% of...

The NJ 50 x 30 Building Electrification Team hosts monthly talks on reducing your building’s energy consumption and lowering emissions. Here, we highlight tips and examples to meet these goals from three recent webinars.

The climate crisis imposes unique challenges for adaptation for New Jersey. To integrate climate change impacts and risks in our decision making, we need the best information available.

Those of us living in the industrialized world have burned so much coal and oil over the past 200 years that the smoke and carbon in the atmosphere have raised the earth’s temperature. We need to do something now! One solution to avoid adding more...

In March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spoke up and told us no amount of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) is safe for human consumption and that it is proposing historically low allowable levels of PFAS in drinking water.

Roughly half the residents of New Jersey live in environmentally burdened communities, according to a map produced by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Therefore, it was a great relief to advocates for clean air and a safe...