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A new program providing rebates for solar panels and related equipment manufactured in New Jersey has been kicked off by the state's Board of Public Utilities (BPU). Also making New Jersey environmental news is a bill scheduled for action on Monday in the state Legislature that would provide low-int...
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Results in the New Jersey Environmental-Energy big leagues: Princeton-based NRG Energy picks up road win in Texas, while Fairfield-based Covanta Energy triumphs in South Carolina but loses in Connectiicut.
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At this fuel pump, customers set their own biodiesel blend- from 2 to 20 percent.
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New Jersey 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 in 1995.
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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 in law suits against drilling companies.
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The little state of Delaware's primary claim to fame for the last 222 years has been that it was the first of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Today it wants to make history again by becoming the first state to get some of its electric energy from offshore wind turbines.
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"As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive. And they have yet to say how they'll deal with it."
EnviroPolitics Mars candy is now producing 20 percent of the energy needs of its M&Ms factory in Hackettstown, NJ with 28,000 ground-mounted solar panels spread over 18 acres
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Both the environmental and business communities are undergoing internal disputes over climate-change legislation.
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David Gewirtz weighed in as a guest contributor to Anderson Cooper's blog today with the following observations on the just-concluded New Jersey governor's race:
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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.
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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?
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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.
