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Christie Administration Ignores Climate Change in New Jersey's Post-Sandy Rebuild
2013-12-19 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of aggressive rebuilding initiatives to protect New Yorkers from future climate-related threats. But less than a mile away in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, political leaders reacted in a much different way. To them, the October 2012 superstorm was just a rare event, not a preview of what scientists expect global warming to bring to the East Coast in the coming decades. When asked in May...
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Governor Christie won't sign on to multistate petition to protect New Jersey's air quality
2013-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: Governor Christie has refused to join a coalition of eight Eastern states seeking to curb air pollution blowing in from Midwest and Southern coal-fired power plants that help make New Jerseys air quality among the worst in the nation. The move to reject a petition filed Monday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency follows a series of similar actions by Christie to withdraw from multistate initiatives designed to address environmental problems. It also adds to criticism that Christie, a...
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PRESS RELEASE: New Jerseys Industrial Market Continues to Spur Class A Development
2013-12-09 21:02:00| National Real Estate Investor
Danielle Z. The consistent demand for Class A industrial properties in New Jersey, coupled with the state’s depleted supply of such space, has caused construction activity to pop in the last year, according to findings in CBRE Group, Inc.’s 3Q’13 New Jersey Industrial MarketView Report. read more
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Hurricane Sandy exposes New Jersey's marsh mistakes
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: When Hurricane Sandy's powerful storm tide pummeled New Jersey, 70 percent of the state's old submerged marshes flooded, researchers reported Monday (Oct. 28) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver. About 25 percent of those marshes were developed, and two-thirds of that development took place between 1995 and 2007, said Joshua Galster, a geomorphologist at Montclair State University in New Jersey. "A lot of these areas were being developed when we really should have known...
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Officials hail New Jersey's Economic Opportunity Act
2013-10-19 11:29:12| Footwear - Topix.net
Michael Kotzen, from the Virtua is speaking during panel discussion. IDA*s are Michael Kotzen from the Virtua, Dr. Kenneth Blank from the Rowan Univ.
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