Tag: New jersey

February 1, 2024

On Nov. 25, the Municipal Water Authority in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, suffered a cyberattack on one of its water utility stations when an Iranian-backed hacking group disabled the monitor used to regulate water pressure throughout the system. Plant managers continued operating […]

September 25, 2023

Ocean County, New Jersey is set to receive a grant to improve its recycling program with new, state-of-the-art technology. Announced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) the $1,867,163 Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant will finance the installation of an […]

August 15, 2023

BPU staff are proposing that the storage incentive program have separate market segments for front-of-the-meter and behind-the-meter storage, with a portion of distributed storage incentives set aside for projects that cater to overburdened communities. The incentive program would be technology […]

October 14, 2020

All 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have some form of environmental justice policy, intended to protect minorities and low-income citizens from disproportionately high exposure to pollution; but many of these vulnerable communities are still plagued, and at […]

September 25, 2020

PSE&G’s program is the first approved under this new framework developed by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU). The June order creating the framework “laid the groundwork” for a performance-based cost recovery approach for utility regulation, according to […]

September 15, 2020

Riders of New Jersey Transit, the country’s third-largest public transit system, will now able to tell how crowded an incoming bus or train is before it arrives, with a new tool that was added to the agency’s mobile app on […]

August 3, 2020

Union County in northeastern New Jersey will soon break ground on a privately financed $220 million recycling facility after officials approved an amendment in the county’s recycling plan that paves the way for the facility’s construction. Among the facility’s operations […]

May 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. The state already has the seventh-largest U.S. installed solar capacity, ahead of nearby New York and Massachusetts. Gov. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed […]

May 26, 2020

New Jersey ended 2019 with just over 30,000 EVs on its roads, so it will need to see rapid adoption to meet Murphy’s goal. The straw proposal process “aims to really jump start the whole EV industry in New Jersey,” […]

April 23, 2020

People in New Jersey sent 1.3 million tons of food waste to landfills and incinerators in 2017, according to an estimate from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”). However, efforts to reduce food waste in the state recently […]

March 12, 2020

Officials in New Jersey have signed an agreement to cap the Keegan Landfill in Kearny, N.J., and dedicate the site to “public passive recreation,” The Jersey Journal reports. The agreement provides a timeline for the site to be capped, which […]

March 6, 2020

After six years of back-and-forth discussions, the New Jersey Senate on March 5 gave final legislative approval requiring large generators of food waste to recycle the material instead of sending it to landfill. The bill, which ultimately passed as A2371, […]

February 12, 2020

The New Jersey State Senate has hesitated to vote for legislation that would prevent food waste from being landfilled or incinerated. Lawmakers held off voting on the bill, which seeks to force large generators of food waste, like hospitals, prisons, […]

January 24, 2020

Energy efficiency will be a vital tool in the Garden State’s bid to reach 100% clean energy by 2050, but that will require making significant strides from today’s reality, according to experts. “New Jersey has had one of the most-costly […]

January 9, 2020

After nearly six years in the making, New Jersey is likely to pass food waste recycling legislation this week. At least that is the hope of environmental advocates, particularly environmental law attorney Matthew Karmel, who is also the chairman of […]

December 23, 2019

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) on Dec. 20 announced it has approved 45 applications in the first year of its Community Solar Energy Pilot Program. The NJBPU in a statement Friday said the projects, with total generation […]

November 25, 2019

The New Jersey Senate’s Environment and Energy Committee has combined two bills designed to analyze the state’s recycling challenges and recommend ways of reusing more recyclable materials, NJ Spotlight reports. The combined bill (S-3939/3-944) calls for the creation of a […]

October 7, 2019

A Superior Court judge in New Jersey has ruled that the Keegan Landfill in the Meadowlands “represents a clear and immediate danger” to nearby residents in Kearny and will remain closed. Northjersey.com reports that Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos, who sued […]

August 26, 2019

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy conditionally vetoed A3726, which would require large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amend the definition of Class I renewable energy. Murphy returned the bill to the legislature with recommendations to […]

August 19, 2019

Legislators in New Jersey are examining ways to fix the state’s recycling system, where many communities are paying more to recycle than dispose of their trash. The state seeks to not abandon three decades of recycling mandates but rather to […]