Come and share your views and recommendations for the future of freshwater fisheries in New Jersey and learn about current research, management, and fish culture activities!
The forum’s topics include:
Lake Trout/Landlocked Salmon Update
2023 Coolwater Sampling Results
Trout Program Considerations
Freshwater Fishing Education Programs
The presentations will be followed by an open public question period.
You can join the virtual meeting from a computer, tablet, or smartphone, or by telephone.
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and JAE C. HONG, Associated Press
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers.
When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Now he works mostly with laptops and the occasional MacBook.
But the central tenet of his work hasn’t changed: Nothing goes to waste. What can be fixed is fixed. What can be salvaged gets re-used elsewhere. What’s left is sold as scrap.
“We utilize everything possible,” he said.
The shop he works at is one of many in a market that spreads across several streets filled with haggling customers. Most repair shops are a single room crammed with junked electronic devices or e-waste with tables placed outside. Workers, many of them migrants from across Vietnam, repair or salvage items like laptops, scarred mobile phones, camera lenses, television remotes, even entire air conditioning units. Other shops sell brand-new electronics alongside old, refurbished items.
The bustle is emblematic of a world that is producing more e-waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022, projected to grow to 82 million metric tons by 2030, according to a report by the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union and research arm UNITAR. Asian countries generate almost half of it.
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PA Gov. Josh Shapiro beats the drum for the Philadelphia Union soccer team
By Stephen Caruso and Angela Couloumbis, Spotlight PA|
HARRISBURG — A nonprofit that does not publicly disclose its donors paid more than $12,000 last year for Gov. Josh Shapiro to attend sporting events. The secrecy leaves taxpayers in the dark about who underwrites the outings and what interests they may have in state government policy.
The money also raises questions about whether the Democrat is violating his ban on accepting gifts.
Shapiro reported receiving $12,194.62 from Team PA for “transportation, lodging or hospitality” on his newly filed statement of financial interest. The Harrisburg-based nonprofit bills itself as a public-private partnership to bolster Pennsylvania’s economic development; its “investors” include a cross-section of the state’s top business industries, according to an annual report.
On the form, Shapiro did not describe what Team PA paid for, writing only: “The governor in his official capacity attended various events for the benefit of the Commonwealth to promote Pennsylvania and its economic interests.”
In an email, Shapiro spokesperson Manuel Bonder said Team PA paid for the Democratic governor to attend six sporting events: the 2023 Super Bowl in Arizona and games played by the Harrisburg Senators, Penn State’s football team, Philadelphia Phillies, and Philadelphia Union.
Bonder added that Shapiro was often invited to these games by the teams, and used the time to greet fans, cheer the teams on, and network with business or legislative leaders who were also in attendance.
The money for those tickets came from a little-known fund that Team PA manages called Pennsylvania Growth Partnership, which accepts donations exclusively to promote the governor — and by extension, the commonwealth and its economic health — on a national and international stage.
It’s not publicly known which individuals, groups, or businesses have donated to the growth partnership fund. Nonprofits are required to file detailed annual reports to the Internal Revenue Service that list, among other things, revenue and expense totals. But they aren’t required to make the names of their donors public.
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Gas is flared at the Ineos-owned Grangemouth oil refinery. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
By Tom Brown and Christina Last, The Guardian, May 2, 2024
Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed.
Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany, and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions, and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring.
Flares are used by fossil fuel companies when capturing the natural gas would cost more than they can make by selling it. They release carbon dioxide and toxic pollutants when they burn as well as cancer-causing chemicals.
Despite the health risks, regulators sometimes prefer flaring to releasing natural gas – which is 90% methane – directly into the atmosphere, known as “venting”.
The World Bank, alongside the EU and other regulators, has been using satellites for years to find and document gas flares, asking energy companies to find ways of capturing the gas instead of burning or venting it.
The bank set up the Zero Routine Flaring 2030 initiative at the Paris climate conference to eradicate unnecessary flaring, and its latest report stated that flaring decreased by 3% globally from 2021 to 2022.
But since the initiative, “enclosed combustors” have begun appearing in the same countries that promised to end flaring. Experts say enclosed combustors are functionally the same as flares, except the flame is hidden.
Tim Doty, a former regulator at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, said: “Enclosed combustors are basically a flare with an internal flare tip that you don’t see. Enclosed flaring is still flaring. It’s just different infrastructure that they’re allowing.
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Join the New Jersey Business and Industry Association for an insightful half-day event where three dynamic panel discussions converge to shed light on critical environmental issues shaping the landscape of business practices today.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain crucial knowledge and strategic insights from industry leaders at the forefront of environmental policy and practice.
Panel topics will include: Site Remediation and Waste, Emerging Issues Environmental Justice Implementation How to Improve DEP Regulatory Programs: Lessons Learned from the Inside and Outside
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After watching previous attempts to attract ocean windmills collapse, the Murphy administration is seeking new proposals for offshore energy
By Tom Johnson, NJ Spotlight News
The Murphy administration has again asked for proposals to build offshore wind projects off the Jersey coast, a step aiming to advance its struggling clean-energy goals despite recent events that have created turmoil in the sector.
In a unanimous vote, the state Board of Public Utilities began accepting bids from wind developers Tuesday, looking to build new offshore wind capacity of between 1.2 gigawatts and 4 gigawatts. If developed, it would vault New Jersey to well more than half of its target of 11 gigawatts by 2040.
That is perhaps a big if, however since supply chain constraints and steeper borrowing costs led New York to cancel three offshore wind projects it had granted provisional approval to earlier this month. Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind developer, walked away from two projects off the Jersey coast last fall.
“The latest solicitation is further proof of our commitment to building a strong and thriving wind industry that will deliver undeniable economic and environmental benefits to our state, for both this generation and the next,’’ said Gov. Phil Murphy in a press statement following the action. The window for bids closes on July 10.
“We look forward to consider the next round of applications as we continue to combat the intensifying climate crisis and solidify New Jersey as a national offshore wind hub,’’ said Christine Guhl-Sadovy, president of the BPU.
New Jersey has no offshore wind turbines currently operating, but has approved three projects, including two to build 3.7 gigawatts off the coast in January, enough to power about 1.8 million homes. Other states up and down the East Coast also are pursuing the technology as a way of fighting climate change and creating tens of thousands of jobs, but only two are operating.
Long a source of clean energy in Europe and Asia, the industry has navigated a host of challenges in recent years in the U.S. Supply chain constraints and steeper borrowing costs have slowed, delayed, and killed projects in recent months, as well as an outcry about the cost to utility customers, who will see higher energy bills.
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