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Latest New Jersey News Headlines
Final adoption of regulations upgrades state's surface water quality standards 10/18/06
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today announced the final adoption of regulations that will upgrade the state's surface water quality standards to achieve cleaner water statewide. The newly adopted rules establish more stringent standards for more than 100 toxic pollutants to protect human health and a broad range of aquatic species. With this adoption, five streams will receive a Category 1 (C1) designation, which prevents any measurable deterioration in existing water quality, limiting development impacts and discharges to streams.
The Surface Water Quality Standards rules and a copy of the adoption document can be found by clicking here. The adoption was published in the New Jersey Register on October 16, 2006.
DEP Awards $4.5 Million To Support Local Recycling Programs 10/5/05
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today (Oct. 3) announced $4.5 million in grants to counties and municipalities to support local recycling programs.
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Four States Join Forces To Fight Flooding Along DelawareRiver 09/21/06
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today announced that New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware will form an interstate task force to develop substantive recommendations for protecting residents’ lives and property from disastrous flooding along the Delaware River and its tributaries. The four states, which also agreed to fund a $500,000 study to determine the impact of reservoir operations on flood management, will coordinate the regional flood-mitigation initiative through the Delaware River Basin Commission.
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Animal Activists Sentenced, Fined $1M September 14, 2006
Three animal-welfare activists whose Web site led to the harassment of employees of a company that tests products on animals were sentenced to between four and six years in federal prison on Tuesday. They also were ordered to pay a total of $1 million in restitution to the company and people they terrorized.
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McMansions Could Be Banned in One NJ Town September 14, 2006
They're called McMansions -- huge houses that some say are way too big for the community. And now, officials in Bernards Township, New Jersey, just might have found a way around them. A public hearing will be held tonight on a proposal to restrict the width of new homes. Rather than expanding their homes on the sides, residents would only be able add onto the rears. Mayor John Malay calls the proposal a good compromise.
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PUBLIC ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE
IN UPCOMING RECREATIONAL TRAILS PLAN
Department of Environmental Protection
Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson and Department of Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri today encouraged residents to share their ideas about the future of New Jersey's network of recreational trails by participating in several forums being held this month and in October.
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DEP AND BPU ANNOUNCE MILESTONE IN REGIONAL EFFORT TO COMBAT GLOBAL
WARMING August 16, 2006
New Jersey Department of Environmental Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson and New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Jeanne M. Fox announced that New Jersey and six other states have released a set of model regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants. New Jersey is a participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative effort by Northeastern states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - a greenhouse gas that causes global warming.
For more information please visit http://www.rggi.org/
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DEP CLOSES SECTIONS OF BAY AND OCEAN BEACHES TO PROTECT RARE MIGRATORY SHOREBIRDS May 15, 2006
TRENTON -- Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today announced the temporary closure of several beaches both on the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to protect critical feeding and resting areas for threatened and endangered migratory shorebirds.
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New Jersey Admits 970 Rivers and Lakes Polluted
State Tries to Bury Report; Gives Public Only Three Days NoticeMay 8, 2006
Nearly one thousand water-bodies across New Jersey are too dirty for fishing or swimming, according to the latest agency figures posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Many of the 970 polluted lakes, rivers, bays and estuaries serve as drinking water sources, habitat for fish and shellfish, and recreation for hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents.
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Governor's Offshore Wind Energy Panel Releases Final Report Recommends
Intensive Study and Test Project of Offshore Wind May 3, 2006
New Jersey should consider launching a limited and carefully monitored offshore wind-turbine test project to gather more data about the technology's costs and benefits, the state's Blue Ribbon Panel on the Development of Wind Turbine Facilities in Coastal Waters recommended in its final report released today.
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DEP CLOSES SHELLFISH BEDS IN BARNEGAT BAY 04/20/06
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today ordered the immediate closure of shellfish harvesting in Barnegat Bay, Ocean County, because treated sewage released from a broken main has degraded water quality.
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DEP ANNOUNCES CLEAN COMMUNITIES GRANTS FOR 2006April 12,2006
Lisa P. Jackson today announced 559 New Jersey municipalities and 21 counties will receive more than $9.5 million in Clean Communities funding for litter prevention and public education, adopt-a-highway campaigns and graffiti cleanups.
Click here for a list of available grants
Clean Communities Council Inc. Web site
STATEWIDE FIRE RESTRICTIONS ELEVATED
Dry Weather Causes Concern
Windy and dry weather conditions prompted Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson today to impose statewide fire restrictions on recreational campfires. The elevated risk of forest fires is rated high to very high meaning a fire can be sparked easily and spread rapidly.
For additional information on specific wildfire hazards, permit
restrictions, fire prevention activities visit click here
Anti-fishing activists go against the tide at Jersey Shore
PETA representatives met with some indifference and polite rebuffs on Atlantic City's Boardwalk. Sandwiched between a roiling ocean full of fish and a restaurant full of people eating fish, three activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spent the lunch hour yesterday(March 15, 2006) on the Boardwalk trying to make a simple point: Fish have feelings, too.
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