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Summer is approaching, and with it the need to cool our homes. A central house air conditioner is the largest summertime energy consumer in a home.

If you live in Mercer County or the lower portion of Middlesex County you should be concerned about the proposed Bridge Point 8 Industrial Park plan for seven large warehouses totaling 5.5 million square feet, plus about 500,000 square feet...

New Jersey will finally say goodbye to coal power. The state’s last two coal-fired power plants were scheduled to shutter around May 31. The Logan and Chambers plants are owned by Starwood Energy, which plans to decommission them and work with a...

If, upon your next visit to Center City Philadelphia or to Central Park in New York, you could enter through a magic door and be transported to what these areas looked like 400 years ago, would you go through? Just a short drive away from these...

During Earth Week, my daughter sent me a sonogram of my granddaughter, Eliana. Communities across the state exhibited Electric Vehicles, planted trees, walked along trails, and sponsored neighborhood cleanups. My Facebook friends posted pictures of...

Earth Day: It’s the one day where everyone in the world is expected to keep the health of the planet in mind—but it’s only one day. Earth Day shouldn’t be an excuse to neglect the environment for the other 364 days of the year. If we’re serious...

In April, Sierra Club volunteers took part in four events throughout New Jersey to promote electric vehicles (EVs). Part of Drive Electric Earth Day, the events offered a chance for anyone interested in buying an electric car to speak to owners of...

Electric Vehicle (EV) sales are growing faster than ever. Tesla maintains a majority EV market share currently, but many new options are becoming available. It’s important to check out the best-selling EVs today and what will be available soon.

More than 50 years ago, the need to recycle our plastic waste was being discussed by the plastics industry. A key speaker at a chemists’ conference in New Jersey said that inventing decomposable plastics “will be the holy grail of chemists...

It was a relief to see swarms of midges, dung flies, and slugs in my local park this spring. Ordinarily there would be no reason for such a reaction, but I had just finished Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” This landmark book about the challenges...