After months of complaints from business and political leaders about new coastal management rules, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is now facing blistering criticism from environmental advocates for agreeing to a one-year delay and new review of regulations intended to prepare the state for sea-level rise and more flooding. Jeff Tittel, a longtime environmental policy […]

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Last week we went on a family vacation that included a stop in Falmouth, Jamaica. Falmouth is a small town on the north side of the island situated to the east of Montego Bay. This was our first visit to Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa passed right over this region last October. This storm made landfall with […]

Mary Creasman had insurance on her mind as she made her way to the California Capitol on Earth Day. Creasman, of the nonprofit California Environmental Voters, was in Sacramento Wednesday to support California Senate Bill 982 after it was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The bill, also called the Affordable Insurance and […]

New Jersey is among the states hit hardest by the blizzard that battered the Northeast Sunday and Monday, with two feet of snow or more and extremely high winds, causing flooding in coastal Atlantic City and other towns. But as Rutgers climate scientist Anthony Broccoli explains, storms like this are not only inland snow events. […]

Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers. Deadly flooding in Indonesia has prompted unprecedented government action against companies accused of environmental destruction that worsened the disaster. But environmentalists who have long warned about the risks of rampant deforestation fear the current response will not solve the problem, and could even make it worse. […]

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A bizarre weather phenomenon is to blame for the relentless downpours