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Join volunteers from the Valley Forge Audubon Society on the third Saturday of every month, March through October, for a free guided birding tour around the woods and meadows of historic Mill Grove. Our outing leaders will help you learn about the seasonal and month-to-month fluctuations in bird life in a friendly and relaxed setting.
A Lunch & Learn Program in Partnership with NJ Clean Communities Noon, Thursday, February 29, 2024 Zoom Webinar. Click here to register
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Learn to cross-promote your town’s MS4 Requirements and litter abatement education
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In a Facebook post, the center said that the baby seal was being treated for parasites and was struggling to eat. The center also said it was assist-feeding the pupfish and other nutrients to nurse the seal back to health.
“We were hopeful when the pup began showing more interest in food last week, even starting to eat smaller fish on his own in recent days,” the center said in the post. “However, on the evening of February 19th the pup showed a very sudden and rapid decline, and despite the extraordinary efforts by our staff to resuscitate him, the pup passed away only a few minutes later.”
Director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center Sheila Dean told NJ Advance Media when the pup was found it was severely underweight.
The Facebook post on Tuesday said the pup was being treated for parasites and likely suffering from a respiratory infection.
Sheila Dean, Director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, said Tuesday the pup found in Ocean City is one of the few that have died after being rescued by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Dean said seal strandings are not uncommon along the New Jersey coast and that the center averages between 40 and 50 seal rescues per year, although many of the seals are found dead.
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An ancient lake that reemerged at Death Valley National Park last year will remain for longer than initially expected now that several rounds of extreme rain have poured through Southern California, according to officials.
Death Valley’s famed Badwater Basin began filling up with water in August due to heavy precipitation from Hurricane Hilary, which prompted the first tropical storm watch in California state history, Abby Wines, park ranger at Death Valley National Park, told ABC News last month. During that event, more than 2 inches of water fell on Aug. 20 — the amount the region typically sees in a year.
People walk through the still present Lake Manly at Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif., Jan. 26, 2024.Allison Dinner/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Park rangers initially estimated that several inches of water where Ice Age-era Lake Manly once stood would only last until February. But storm systems fueled with potent atmospheric rivers in recent weeks has expanded the lake once again, satellite images released by NASA show.
Much of the precipitation occurred between Feb. 4 and Feb. 7, when 1.5 inches of water fell in the park, according to a statement released by the National Park Service on Friday. The series of satellite images shows how the lake expanded from virtually no water on July 5 to being flooded with water from August through February.
Death Valley is the driest place in North America, with a typical rainfall total of about 2 inches per year, according to NASA. In the past six months, the region has received nearly 5 inches of rain, records show.
At this point, park rangers are uncertain how long the lake will last. Another round of atmospheric rivers are forecast for the region on Monday through Wednesday.
This series of images compares the desert basin before flooding (left) with its more-waterlogged state following each major storm. In both August 2023 (middle) and February 2024 (right), a shallow lake several kilometers across fills in the low-lying salt flat.
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The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee will meet on Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 12, 4th Floor, State House Annex in Trenton, NJ to consider the following bills:
A3800 (Sampson, pending intro and referral) Prohibits the sale of certain children’s products containing lead, mercury, or cadmium.
A3801 (Hall, pending intro and referral) Prohibits the sale, distribution, and manufacture of jewelry containing cadmium.
FOR DISCUSSION ONLY:
A3018 (Calabrese) Establishes a task force to study the presence of mercury in floors of certain facilities.
A3019 (Calabrese/Stanley/Danielsen) Requires new flooring for schools and child care centers to be certified to be mercury-free.
The public may address comments and questions to Kathryn Meza, Jaime Velazquez, Committee Aides, or make bill status and scheduling inquiries to Charles Lwanga, Secretary, at (609)847-3870 fax (609)777-2715, or e-mail: OLSAideACO@njleg.org. Written and electronic comments, questions, and testimony submitted to the committee by the public, as well as recordings and transcripts, if any, of oral testimony, are government records and will be available to the public upon request.
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The EPA said that Clean Harbors’ facility had repeatedly violated environmental laws from 2021 to 2023.
An aerial view of Clean Harbors’ Kimball TSDF shows the areas where hazardous waste containers are offloaded or loaded onto trucks in Area 57 A/B/C. On multiple occasions, regulators found hazardous waste in the area that exceeded the time limit by which the waste should have been moved between 2021 and 2023. (2022). “EPA Final inspection report FY 22 NE Clean Harbors”
Clean Harbors received a $270,412 fine for hazardous waste management violations at its Kimball, Nebraska, incineration plant where it’s currently completing an expansion, the U.S. EPA announced in a release Wednesday.
From 2021 to 2023, regulators flagged a series of issues to Clean Harbors, some of which related to a backlog of hazardous material that the company has acknowledged in earnings calls. Wednesday’s announcement follows a “lengthy history” of violations of environmental laws like the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the EPA said. The agency noted that Clean Harbors has since corrected the violations.
“Mismanagement of hazardous waste leads to human exposure and environmental contamination,” David Cozad, director of EPA Region 7’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, said in a statement. “This penalty action involving one of the largest hazardous waste disposal facilities in the country demonstrates EPA’s commitment to protecting communities and leveling the playing field for companies that comply with the law.”
The operating permit for the Kimball, Nebraska, hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility, or TSDF, was renewed for five years on Sept. 15, 2022. Clean Harbors has operated the plant since it acquired the property from Amoco in 1995, according to a company factsheet.
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