The Port Authority and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a plan to replace some of the heaviest truck polluters at area ports and completely phase out older trucks in the coming years.
The $28 million program, partly funded by a $7 million EPA grant, is designed to encourage the owners of up to [...]
The city’s new $20 million Public Safety Communications Center on Bishop Street, which was unveiled today, is made from recyclable material and features a planted roof to slow water runoff and heat-impact reducing tiles. That and other eco-conscious elements of the building are leading the city to tout it as “the first major communications center [...]
Grace Church Van Vorst barely seemed open from the outside Friday night, even as the first-ever Green Teen Music and Arts Festival was happening within. But as the red double doors swung open, the clamor of people gradually got louder until it swept over us like a rush of hot air from an oven.
The Jersey City artist has teamed up with more than 1,000 local students to explore “the politics and economics of bottled water” through sculpture. The installation is made up discarded water bottles collected from school waste receptacles, the Hackensack and Hudson Riverfronts, city streets and neighborhood parks.
The environmental nonprofit group Hackensack Riverkeeper has begun accepting applications for the 2010 Ron Vellekamp Environmental Scholarship, which supports a college-bound senior who excels academically and is committed to protecting the environment.
The namesake of the scholarship, Ronald Vellekamp, was a high school science teacher in Ridgefield, a Palisades Interstate Park ranger and a Hackensack Riverkeeper [...]
Workers will use a drill rig mounted to a pickup truck to collect soil samples at the chromium-contaminated site on Garfield Avenue today, weather permitting. The work is expected to take one day only.
The samples will be taken from about four feet below the ground, and then a New Jersey-certified lab will analyze the samples [...]
Jersey City is set to receive $2.33 million for five energy efficiency projects through the federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Program, which is being funded by the federal stimulus package. Jersey City’s take is just a small part of the $75.5 million being allocated to New Jersey municipalities for energy-saving initiatives.
“We have been on [...]
Officials have confirmed a meeting next Thursday, Dec. 17, to discuss potential health studies in the chromium-polluted areas being cleaned up under a settlement between the city, the state and PPG Industries.
Site administrator Mike McCabe says he is currently reviewing chromium-related health studies and consulting with experts to determine whether or not to [...]
In August, we reported on the fight of truckers and activists to reform the port trucking industry on both the environmental and labor fronts. Today, the Coalition for Healthy Ports has released a study that claims “lax regulation in the national port trucking system has triggered a broad public health crisis” in North Jersey and [...]
PSE&G’s Hudson Generating Station, a 608-megawatt coal-fired power plant that sits imposingly on the banks of the Hackensack River in Jersey City, reduced the amount of toxic chemicals it releases into the air by an astonishing 88.2 percent in 2008, according to new data released by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The drastic drop in emissions, [...]
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