NJ animal cops ticket 100 fishermen in a week to protect fisheries
Overfishing can end up hurting New Jersey fisheries so protecting and regulating them is key to keeping the fish population sustainable for years to come.
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Lawmakers look to let towns borrow to buy electric vehicles
The Senate passed its bill, and an Assembly committee endorsed its bill. But the plans differ on whether to include hybrid, hydrogen and natural gas vehicles.
Lakewood, New Jersey Zoning Board to vote on plan to build 33 two-story townhouses
One of Ocean County's and New Jersey's largest growing towns may soon be getting a little bit bigger and the plan is being met with environmental opposition.
As recycling declines in New Jersey, trash continues to pile up
Because of the pandemic, the Recycling Market Development Council, created last January, has never even met.
Clean energy break: NJ may consider creating its own electric grid
Lawmakers may direct the BPU to study whether to withdraw from the regional electric transmission grid in favor of going it alone or joining New York's.
State parks privatization to be explored under new NJ budget
Language in the three-month budget enacted Tuesday directs the DEP to seek ideas for "cultural, recreational and local economic opportunities" in state parks.
Groups: Don’t spend $16B on Parkway, Turnpike. Spend $36B on transit instead
Activists who oppose spending $16 billion to widen parts of the Parkway and Turnpike are suggesting $36 billion in other ideas – most of it transit projects.
Plastic and paper bag ban passed by NJ Senate — again
Legislation banning plastic bags, paper bags and Styrofoam food containers is approved by the Senate and back to the Assembly, where it stalled two months ago.
NJ could allow more events at farms, wineries — environmentalists upset
Though a state review of a pilot program of special events at wineries isn't complete, lawmakers want to make it permanent and extend it to preserved farms.
NJ close to getting offshore wind farm (but you probably won’t see it)
The BPU will soon name the company that will build phase 1 of a giant wind farm in the ocean
One year into Murphy era, progressives ‘deeply disappointed’
Liberal activists say the state of the state is not as good as they expected it would be when voters paired Gov. Phil Murphy and a Democratic legislature.