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Offshore wind energy faces stiff challenges
In an informative article yesterday (US Offshore Wind Project Updates ) Renewable Energy World staff writer Graham Jesmer reports on the considerable obstacles faced by the intrepid companies that are seeking to convert offshore winds into the electr...
Lame-duck bill out to kill a NJ nuclear plant?
A new environmental bill, S-3041, has New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear power plant clearly in its crosshairs.Branded as "anti-nuclear" by an industry blogger, the measure was introduced recently in the waning weeks of the current legislative session...
New Jersey\'s 2009 environmental achievers
New Jersey Meadowlands photo by shutterbugMikeIt was good to see the outstanding environmental achievements of numerous individuals, companies, organizations and government units recognized by New Jersey's governor on Thursday night.Among the winners...
Attend this NJ green building conference without leaving the office
You suspect there may be valuable things to see and learn at the Jan. 12-14 New Jersey Builders Association's Green Build Event and Expo but you don't know how you'd possibly find that time and to travel to and tour the event. Fortunately, you won't ...
NJ\'s late season crop of green legislation
Returning to Trenton from a prolonged vacation that began before July 4 and extended through the November 4 election, state lawmakers have already introduced a truckload of new environmental legislation--much of it addressing the hot areas of energy ...
New Jersey enviro-on-the-lam jailed in China
Justin Franchi Solondz, a 30-year-old native of Randolph, NJ, who has been running from the FBI for eight years after allegedly participating in the destruction of a horticulture center at the University of Washington, was convicted on Friday of drug...
Upcoming environmental events in NJ & PA
Check out these great upcoming eventsin New Jersey and Pennsylvania:December 1 Pennsylvania DEP Public Meeting on Results of TEC Emission Reduction Efforts7 p.m., Perkiomen Valley Middle School East auditorium, 100 Kagey Road, Collegeville, PA.The Pe...
NJ-based NRG and Covanta get road wins
Results in the New Jersey Environmental-Energy big leagues: Princeton-based NRG Energy picks up road win in Texas Environmental regulators in the Lone Star State have approved a draft permit to allow the energy company to build a $1.2 billion pulve...
Setting your own biodiesel blend in New Jersey
Dixon Brothers, location on Cobb Street in Rockaway, is the first biodiesel retail fueling stations in Morris County--and one of onlytwo in New Jersey--where customers can set their own blend of conventional diesel fuel and a domestically produced, r...
New Jersey sets new recycling grant record
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is awarding $14.5 million in grants to boost local recycling efforts--nearly twice as much as last year's $8 million and almost three times higher than the previous high of $5.5 million set ...
Law firm trolling for Marcellus water cases
Can the use of 'fracking' to extract natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania pollute private wells? A Texas-based law firm thinks it can and it's actively searching for affected property owners to represent ...
NY/NJ Port shippers see wolf in \'green\' costume
A broad group of retailers and other shippers are calling on the mayors of New York and Newark to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that they say would allow local regulators to bar independent owner-operators from harbor trucking.The...
Forbes takes a look at burying carbon at sea
Forbes has found a place capacious enough to store several hundred billion tons of CO2, enough to take on all the power plants within 155 miles of the coast from Maryland to Massachusetts for the next 100 years. Can you guess where it is? Both Pen...
Will NRG save Bluewater\'s wind projects?
Princeton-based NRG Energy Inc. is reported to be discussing the financial rescue of Bluewater Wind, the company that hopes to build the nation's first wind-energy farm off the coast of Delaware and has similar plans for New Jersey.Bluewater has been...
NJ's Governor Candidates on 'Smart Growth'
New Jersey Future asked the state's three leading candidates for governor to respond to a questionnaire about smart growth.The organization reports today that the responses given to six questions posed offered "many similarities-along with some nuanc...
NJ governor hopefuls on key environmental issues
The (Newark) Star-Ledger got the the state's three gubernatorial candidates to answer questions on a number of important environmental issues today--from open-space funding and site cleanups to nuclear energy and bear hunts.Several of the answers are...
Hate development surprises? Read this.
"Does your project development due diligence checklist include a review of resolutions passed by the Council on Affordable Housing ("COAH")? If not, your project might be at risk, and you may not discover it until you are ready to start construction....
Want to participate in the next RGGI auction?
Interested in learning about the proceduresand qualifications necessary to participate in the next Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region RGGI auction to be held on December 2, 2009?You'll get a chance to learn all you need in a free webinar that will be ...
Week's top environmental news in NJ, PA & NY: Sep. 28 - Oct. 2, 2009
Below are just a few of the environmental and political news stories for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and beyond that appeared in EnviroPolitics during the week of Sep. 28 to Oct 2, 2009.New Jersey EnvironmentPopular oyster program nearly out of moneyFed...
PSE&G\'s latest New Jersey power line concessions
How much does Public Service Electric and Gas's proposed new high-power line in northwest New Jersey mean to the company? Apparently, a lot more than it's $750 million cost.Consider the following: In order to reverse initial opposition to the project...
New Jersey leaps ahead in solar payback time
The news agency Reuters reports that, while California may be the Golden State, it’s New Jersey where U.S. residents get the best deal on their solar power systems.A new survey by Global Solar Center , which endeavored to provide an “apples to ap...
Wind energy out to hook fishing industry support
With up to 30 square miles of fishing territory at stake, plans by three developers to build wind-energy farms off New Jersey's coast could have been in very troubled waters had the developers tried to put the area off limits to the state's commercia...
Should New Jersey require prevailing wage for any private real estate projects?
The question in the headline above was posedby NJBIZ to New Jersey's Democrats and Republicans.The business publication said it received no response from the Democrats. The Republican response, sent by Assemblyman Michael J. Doherty, was:"The governm...
ExxonMobil loses on limiting NJ enviro damages
A New Jersey Superior Court judge has rejected the latest effort by ExxonMobil Corp. to limit its damages for harming natural resources at two refinery sites in Elizabeth and Bayonne.In 2007, the Appellate Division held that the state Department of E...
One picture captures PA's budget politics
One picture. It says at least a thousand words about the sorry stateof the Keystone State's official budget...or lack of same.But if it's words you want, check out the blog post that provided both the picture and sharp commentary today on Pennsy's po...
Will TX beat NJ and NY to offshore wind energy?
The governors of New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware would all like to claim credit for being the first state to meet some of its energy needs with electricity produced from clean and renewable offshore winds.Each of the states has propos...
Week's top environmental news in New Jersey, Pennsylvania & New York: July 13-17, 2009
Below are just a few of the environmental and political news stories for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and beyond that appeared in EnviroPolitics during the week of July 13-17, 2009. New Jersey Environment New Jersey is now a true solar power In just a...
NJ Governor's race picks up (renewable) energy
Any Republican candidate who wants a realistic shot at becoming governor in New Jersey has to learn to speak like Rush Limbaugh in the primary and Barack Obama in the general election.No doubt to the chagrin of those managing Democratic Governor Jon ...
Senator Smith saves recycling -- in New Jersey
Recycling in New Jersey--once a national model--had been on a down slide for years until the state Legislature, despite significant opposition, passed legislation last year that re-imposed a recycling tax on garbage.When Governor Corzine signed the l...
Pave the fairways, put up a solar farm
No, it's probably not what Joni Mitchell had in mind when she wrote her early-enviro-era lyrics, but down in Cape May, the owner of the B.L. England power plant wants to build one of New Jersey's largest solar arrays on what is now its nine-hole publ...
