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A particularly depraved form of dog cruelty will now receive the condemnation and punishment it deserves. New Jersey has made animal trunk fighting a felony. Thank the leaders who took a stand against barbarity for profit.

Senators participated to talk about the Burlington County Restaurant Week that begins in June. Grants were announced for struggling businesses.

by Todd DeFeo, The Center Square  | May 14, 2021 01:00 PM Print this article Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into a law a measure exempting Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans forgiven by the federal government from New Jersey’s gross income tax. Under S-3234, businesses may also deduct expenses paid for by such a loan. Congress created the PPP loans as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help small businesses amid the COVID-19 ...

Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds, a Newark environmental activist, said Newark has “been bombarded by pollution from people who don’t live here and frankly don’t seem to give a damn. We are sick, literally, and tired of the casual attitude and indifference from the fossil fuel industry toward our well-being. We are fighting for our survival.” Residents said the project flies in the face of a law Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed last year — but which has yet to take full effect — aiming to...

DELANCO — A new township solar farm will provide clean energy to more than 700 residents in Burlington, Camden and Mercer counties, according to officials.  The solar farm opened Thursday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 900 Coopertown Road. Soltage, the project developer, hosted the event alongside local officials like state Sen. Troy Singleton.  The Delanco site is "one of the inaugural community solar projects in New Jersey," according to a sign-up website for the energy servic...

New Jersey Launches 3.1 MW Community Solar Project Constructed on Delanco Landfill May 14, 2021, 11:25 am | in First-of-its-kind project offers low-income households access to clean energy and bill savings in historic Pilot Program Delanco, N.J.—May 13, 2021–Governor Phil Murphy’s Office of Climate Action and the Green Economy and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) today celebrated the launch of the first community solar project to be constructed on a...

The 3.1 MW solar installation, constructed by New Jersey developer Soltage at 900 Coopertown Road in Delanco Township, will power up to 700

New Jersey solar, gas power plans spotlight justice concerns WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail Two energy projects highlighting the environmental justice movement in very different ways are under way in New Jersey. A gas-fired power backup power plant is proposed for a sewage treatment facility in an already-polluted minority community. And a solar farm has opened atop a closed landfill that is dedicating more than half its electricity to low and moderate-income residents. Res...

Landlords must tell tenants about lead in their water under new N.J. law Updated 11:40 PM; Landlords across the Garden State are now required to tell tenants when their drinking water has high lead levels, thanks to a new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Phil Murphy. Under the law, public water systems have 10 calendar days to notify their customers after a lead action level exceedance is confirmed. If a landlord receives such a notice, they then have three business days to notify their tenants of t...

Under a newly signed bill, income from the federal Paycheck Protection Program will not be used to calculate how much in taxes a business owes to the state.