"The Injustice of Atlantic City’s Floods"
"New Jersey's working class are forgotten as federal government funds fixes for wealthier neighbors".
Source: Climate Central, 05/11/2017
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT)
Pesticide-Friendly Bill From Lepage Mirrors Model By Secretive ALEC
"[Maine] Gov. Paul LePage’s bill to take away municipal government’s ability to enact local pesticide ordinances closely mirrors a model bill written and promoted by a secretive national group that helps large national corporations ghost-write laws for sympathetic state legislators."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 05/10/2017
"‘Dead Rivers, Closed Beaches’: A Water Crisis on Long Island"
"The Great South Bay, flanked by Fire Island and the South Shore of Long Island, once produced half the shellfish consumed in the United States, and supported 6,000 jobs in the early 1970s."
Source: NY Times, 05/10/2017
"The Jersey Shore Would Rather Fight Flooding With Walls Than Retreat"
"The state’s $300 million fund to get coastal homeowners to relocate inland isn’t working."
Source: Bloomberg, 05/05/2017
"First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Shutters Diesel Power Plant"
"America’s first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel-fired electric power plant on Block Island, R.I."
Source: Climate Central, 05/03/2017
New York Plan to Dump Chlorine Into Sewers Worries Environmentalists
"Facing a chronic problem of raw sewage emptying into city waterways during rainfalls, and struggling to meet health regulations, New York City environmental officials are turning to a new method of treating bacteria in sewage: dumping chlorine into sewer pipes leading to the waterways."
Source: NY Times, 05/02/2017
"The Ramapoughs vs. the World"
"Will an oil pipeline proposed for tribal lands destroy the Ramapough Lenape Nation along the New Jersey-New York border? Or will it be the catalyst that once again unites the tribe?"
Source: NY Times, 04/14/2017
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