pollution

New Jersey environmentalists are applauding a plan by the Obama administration to curb pollutants blamed for global warming by cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years.

Environmental advocates are concerned over the increased presence of a certain type of plastic on our beaches and in our oceans that could be damaging the food chain.

A new American Lung Association report reveals that the air in New Jersey is cleaner when it comes to particle or soot pollution, but the Garden State has some of the worst ozone pollution in the nation.

New Jersey always gets a bad wrap as a "toxic" place , usually from those who have never been here and seen our beautiful State! Check out this latest survey .... If they held a power plant pollution Olympics and states “won” medals for being home to the most toxic emissions, the gold, silver and bronze would go to Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively...

A congressional move is trying and get polluters to pay less towards Superfund sites and instead put the onus on the Environmental Protection Agency, something shore representative Rush Holt believes is a bad idea. The Congressman visited two Superfund sites in Old Bridge to see the progress of the land's restoration...