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Credit: (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) File photo: June 20, 2019, people inspect the floodwaters submerging Broadway in Westville after a severe storm. More than 94,000 New Jersey houses are subject to substantial flooding this year at an average cost of some $4,400 per property, and the financial damage will get worse as climate changes over the next 30 years, according to a report published Monday. “The Cost of Climate” by the nonprofit First Street Foundation calculated that another 10,800 properties across the state will suffer flood damage by 2051 because of the bigger storms and higher seas...

December 16, 2020 by Jessica R. Towhey A liquid natural gas facility near Philadelphia got the go-ahead from a federal agency, resulting in a big thumbs-down from some very famous environmental activists. Subscribe The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) recently approved a construction permit for the Gibbstown Logistics Center in Gloucester County, NJ, which will be capable of handling exports of liquified natural gas. The project from New Fortress Energy involves transporting the gas from the Marcellus Shale across Pennsylvania to the terminal using 100-car trains that activists have cal...