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New Jersey Chapter
By Patricia Hilliard • Hudson County Group
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The waterways the aquifer supports are home to many unique species that have evolved to the Pinelands’ acidic, nutrient-poor conditions. The aquifer also supplies thousands of New Jersey homes with freshwater, including roughly 200,000 acres of…
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Whether or not we need a moratorium on data centers, we certainly need some rules and regulations in place around them. And fast! Or we can expect similarly steep cost increases in future.
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April: The Chapter has rolled out a volunteer survey form that will enable staff and volunteers to follow up with new members and help them become involved in our activities and advocacy.
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We have completed our March fundraising appeal, and our summer appeal will begin soon. As always, every donation is appreciated and every donor is cherished. If you are or have been a donor, we humbly invite you to take the next step. Make it…
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The tragic fact is that milk cows are “forced” into an industrial, non-stop, brutally imposed breeding process to increase their output of milk. A cow’s yearly output is about 7,000 pounds by traditional farming, but today’s industrially imposed…
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AI from providers such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini is increasingly popular for online searches, writing assignments, and professional work tasks (including mine as a software engineer), and those light-bulb-level energy…
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Paul Ehrlich managed to get his spurs lodged in the side of certain conservatives during his lifetime, such that they practically celebrated his death. Headlines saying, essentially, “He got it wrong!” virtually littered the conservative press. Why…
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By Bill Beren • Transportation Committee Chair, Beren1@verizon.netThere was a lot of activity related to clean transportation in New Jersey in the first quarter of 2026.
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A recent NJ.com story citing a large number of cancer cases among residents near the Aeromarine landfill (officially, Keyport Sanitary Landfill) renewed focus on risks posed by toxins leaching from it. While alarming, we await investigations by the…