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Don't show me this message again✕ Climate change activists blocked the entrance to a new UK Government hub in Edinburgh to protest against the Cambo oil field’s approval (PA) Greenpeace has threatened to take the government to court if it approves drilling at a new oil field in Scotland. Despite hosting this year's Cop26 climate conference, ministers are considering green-lighting the gas and oil project at Cambo, a North Atlantic site west of Shetland. If given the go-ahead, a further 150-170 million barrels are due to be extracted from the North Sea bed at the site, which is expected t...

Credit: (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File; AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) File photos: Business groups in New Jersey fear the cost of subsidizing nuclear and offshore wind power, cornerstones of the Murphy administration’s clean-energy agenda. For many months, consumer advocates and business groups have unsuccessfully pressed the Murphy administration to assess what the state’s clean-energy goals will do to the cost of electricity in New Jersey. Now, one of the state’s largest business organizations, the Chemistry Council of New Jersey, has done its own in-house analysis on how those policies wo...

Jul 10, 2021 / 06:00 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 10, 2021 / 11:09 AM CDT FILE – In this July 28, 2008, file photo, a female Lymantria dispar moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. In July 2021, the Entomological Society of America announced it is dropping the common name of this destructive insect that is also an ethnic slur against a group of people: the gypsy moth. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File) Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it’s considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth. The Entomological Soc...

File photo: A container ship on the Delaware River When the Delaware River Basin Commission was created in 1961, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware — the four states that encompass the land, wetlands and more than 2,000 tributaries that make up the 13,600 square-mile watershed — each agreed to pay a percentage of the authority’s annual operational budget. But since 2013, New Jersey has fallen short, missing its contribution by $200,000 annually. Under its agreement with the other states, New Jersey was to pay 25% of the costs to run the commission, a share of $893,000. Penn...

Credit: (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) File photo: Salem nuclear plant in Lower Alloways Creek Township. PSEG projects that by 2030 all its power generation will be produced by carbon-free electricity, primarily from its fleet of nuclear power plants. Public Service Enterprise Group is now setting its goal for achieving net-zero climate emissions by 2030, an ambitious target 20 years ahead of a previous goal set by New Jersey’s largest energy company. The goal marks one of the first and most aggressive net-zero emission pledges set in the U.S. by a large utility and power generation company. �...