"I feel like our right to clean water has been ripped away from us," said Ashley Gooldrup, a homeowner on the Howe Road in Fairfield whose well has been contaminated with forever chemicals.
New Jersey Herald
Volunteers kept track of 14 bald eagle nests in Sussex County in 2020, including three previously unknown and two that are newly active, says the Division of Fish and Wildlife s 2020 Bald Eagle Survey report.
Because of its numerous lakes, streams and state and national parks, the county has room for the large raptors to search for food.
The report lists 14 identified eagle nests for last year. Three sites are listed as new, and two where there had been nesting in the past but none last year.
Bald eagles, which mature at about 5 years old, mate for life. However, if a mate dies, the surviving eagle will find a new mate and may use a previous nest of either of the pair.
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THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Dec. 28, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2021.
OVERRIDE BAKER’S VETO OF BILL TO INCREASE ABORTION ACCESS (H 5179)
House 107-50, Senate 32-8, overrode Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of a bill that would allow abortions after 24 weeks in the case of lethal fetal anomalies and lower the age from 18 to 16 at which a minor can choose to have an abortion without parental or judicial consent.
“I strongly support a woman’s right to access reproductive health care, and many provisions of this bill,” said Baker in a letter that accompanied his veto. “I support, for example, the provision that would enable a woman to access an abortion where the child would not survive after birth, and the modifications to the judicial bypass process that make it more accessible to minors who are unable to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian. I also support the changes that elimina
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Emergency vehicles respond after a vehicle strikes a pedestrian on Aug. 21, 2018, at the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
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Residents, environmental activists and local officials say they’re fed up with mud and odors emanating from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver.
They’re also concerned about radioactive materials they say are present in leachate resulting from waste material the landfill accepts from fracking sites.
Rostraver Commissioner John Lorenzo, speaking Thursday at a virtual press conference hosted by community advocacy group Protect PT, said trucks from the landfill have been tracking mud onto adjacent Tyrol Boulevard, causing many motorists to avoid the road. He speculated that departing trucks may not be “staying in the wash bay long enough.