POLITICO
Get the New Jersey Playbook newsletter Email
Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Presented by Pre-K Our Way
Good Thursday morning!
Nobody would ve expected the 70+ percent approval rating Gov. Phil Murphy enjoyed in the early days of the pandemic to last this far into the crisis. So he’s got to be pretty happy with a Monmouth University poll the gold standard of New Jersey polling pegging his approval rating with state residents at 57 percent while 35 percent disapprove.
Specter | Kline & Specter
PHILADELPHIA – Sixteen people who developed cancer, some of them fatally, and their families have brought suit against German medical device manufacturer B. Braun, alleging that emissions of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide (EtO) from the company’s plant in Hanover Township led to their illnesses.
The plaintiffs filed suit in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on May 4 versus B. Braun Medical, Inc., B. Braun Of America, Inc., B. Braun Melsungen AG, B. Braun Cegat, LLC, B. Braun Interventional Systems, Inc. and John Doe, all of Bethlehem.
Ethylene oxide, or EtO, a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, was deemed a human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA data, according to plaintiff counsel, showed that the cancer risk from the colorless gas present in one Hanover Township neighborhood was substantially higher than the average amount measured statewide.
Holyoke Highlands water main project to commence
A fire destroyed a house at 68 Fairfield Ave. in Holyoke on Sept. 28, 2019. At the time, firefighters had difficulty drawing water to battle the blaze because of water pressure problems in the neighborhood. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 5/5/2021 9:01:43 PM
HOLYOKE The city will soon begin work on a significant water main replacement project in the Highlands neighborhood.
The Holyoke Water Works project is intended to address water pressure problems in old pipes where tuberculation the buildup of mounds of rust shrinks the diameter of the pipe. That can be a problem for firefighters a fact highlighted in the fall of 2019, when the Holyoke Fire Department had difficulties drawing water to battle a disastrous house fire on Fairfield Avenue.
The average number of days over 90 degrees will increase to 37 in some areas and be as high as 60 in other parts of the state by 2050, according to the report. By comparison, the state averaged about five days annually above over 90 degrees from 1971 to 2000.
The average number of days hotter than 95 degrees will increase from one day to 10 days.
Precipitation is expected to increase by 8%, primarily in the form of more frequent heavy and extreme rainstorms. The average annual precipitation is projected to jump from 44 inches to 47 inches, with warmer and wetter winters.
Flooding and coastal sea level rise are projected to bring water levels about 2.1 feet higher along the 56-mile coastline of the Delaware estuary.