Tag: Clean Ocean Action

The body of an infant whale that washed up on the Keansburg beachfront in December was part of an unprecedented cluster of whale deaths along the New York and New Jersey shores over the last 40 days.

Riverside Gardens Park will, for the first time, be the setting for the Clearwater Festival, a two-day celebration of music, environment information and sailboat rides.

An April agreement between the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Orsted Offshore North America has cleared a path for Ocean Wind 1, the Garden State’s inaugural offshore wind development, a boon to Gov. Phil Murphy’s vision of achieving 100 percent clean energy for the state by 2050.

SANDY HOOK – Acting on a shared vision of stewardship for Earth, members of two local church congregations will be among the volunteers clearing litter from local beaches April 9, during Clean Ocean Action’s (COA) statewide 2022 Spring Beach Sweeps.

BELFORD – Federal and state officials are celebrating the success of an auction held online last week for the rights to close to half a million acres of ocean waters off the coast of New Jersey and New York slated for development of wind turbine sites.

RED BANK – Whether it’s 18 or 80 degrees outside, Red Bank resident Scott Thompson gets up, checks the weather and, if conditions allow, heads to the water.

Environmental advocacy groups, while encouraging steps to reverse the effects of climate change as quickly as possible, would like Trenton to slow the pace of wind farm legislation until marine impacts can be assessed.

At the most recent Rally for the Two Rivers meeting, representatives from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and other state and local officials discussed the menhaden die-off, its cause and continued monitoring.

ALLISON PERRINEPlastics continue to be among the top items of litter along the Jersey Shore. This plastic bottle was found at...

Local waterways and river banks are awash in thousands of dead fish, most likely the result of a bacterium in the water.