The New Jersey League of Conservation Voters uses the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy as a springboard to a call for immediate action to address climate change.
Not a carp-and-gripe session, the New Jersey Sierra Club-led gathering aims to assess rebuilding progress, and to develop long-term protection solutions.
Since the storm made landfall five years ago, the Monmouth University Polling Institute has kept in touch with a large sample of individuals who were hardest hit.
In each instance, the new defendants are accused of collecting federal and state Superstorm Sandy relief for shore houses that were not their primary residences.
The Sandy Act, which also got support from New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, will help speed up cell phone tower repairs following disasters and is now one house vote shy of getting to President Donald Trump's desk following a Senate approval on Tuesday.
Home repair firms based in Ocean Township and Louisiana are accused of accepting federal Superstorm relief funds to repair storm-damaged houses, then leaving the work incomplete.
Separate from the Superstorm relief package sandy impacted homeowners can head to Toms River Town Hall next week to find out if they're eligible for FEMA home-elevation grants.
More than 400 Superstorm victims, who missed the July 31 deadline for contacting FEMA to continue flood insurance claims, get extra time - and so does anyone who missed the August 1 deadline to schedule claim appeals.
Five more people are being charged with allegedly filing fraudulent applications to get federal sandy relief funds, according to the New Jersey Attorney General's office.