Biden administration backs PennEast pipeline after Supreme Court takes the case
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
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The Biden administration has thrown its support behind a $1 billion natural gas pipeline in the midst of a Supreme Court battle that will shape the future of natural gas and pipeline construction projects across the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided last month that it would hear the appeal of the PennEast Pipeline Company, which is seeking to build a 120-mile natural gas pipeline that would originate in Pennsylvania and traverse through western Hunterdon County and Mercer County.
The company is seeking to overturn a 2019 federal appeals court decision that ruled that PennEast could not use eminent domain powers to seize land owned by New Jersey for pipeline construction.
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Recreational marijuana is finally legal in the Garden State.
After a failed bid to pass recreational marijuana in the state legislature, a statewide ballot question overwhelmingly approved by voters, and then disputes over how the new system would look, Gov. Phil Murphy signed three new laws last month effectively legalizing weed for personal use.
But what does that mean?
Many aspects of this new paradigm from the legal marketplace to the implications for policing to the expungement of past convictions remain hazy.
Here’s what we know and don’t know yet about the state of legal cannabis in New Jersey:
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Updated: March 25, 2021
Recreational marijuana is finally legal in the Garden State.
After a failed bid to pass recreational marijuana in the state legislature, a statewide ballot question overwhelmingly approved by voters, and then disputes over how the new system would look, Gov. Phil Murphy signed three new laws last month effectively legalizing weed for personal use.
Let me be blunt: Today, I signed historic adult-use cannabis reform bills into law – with social justice, racial justice, and economic justice leading the way.
But what does that mean? Many aspects of this new paradigm from the legal marketplace to the implications for policing to the expungement of past convictions remain hazy.
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A traffic officer patrols a lightly trafficked street in Weehawken, N.J., on Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) The New Jersey Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to give force to new state directives that would identify police officers disciplined for misconduct.
“Attorneys do this, we have an attorney disciplinary process; the medical community and many other professions do this,” Justice Barry Albin said at oral arguments. “Why should law enforcement be exempted from what so many other professions do in terms of disclosing those people who have been disciplined?”
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal adopted the shift in the wake of nationwide protests last summer after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, part of a bid to have more transparency and accountability in law enforcement.