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Starbucks and Our Plastic Pollution Problem
The globe is covered in plastic waste. The "to-go" coffee culture is a big part of this problem. Take Starbucks, for example. Starbucks uses more than 8,000 paper cups a minute, which adds up to more than four billion a year.
South Jersey Gas Pipeline
South Jersey Gas has submitted a proposal to put a natural gas pipeline through a portion of the Pinelands Forest Management Area. The proposal would place 22 miles of 24-inch pipeline through Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties in order to provide the B.L. England Plant located in Beesley's Point, Cape May County with natural gas.
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We Lost The Pinelands, But We Will Get Them Back, Clean Water Blog Feature by Janet Tauro, March 7, 2017 After Public Protest, Pinelands Gas Line Approval Headed to Court, NJ Spotlight, February 27, 2017 Environmentalists stage protest inThe Problem of Marine Plastic Pollution
Preventing the generation of disposable products as much as possible reduces the amount of money needed for controlling and managing trash and litter. Prevention is both cost-effective and better for the environment.
Sacrificing Water for Oil and Gas Profit
The rules for exempting aquifers are more than 30 years old, and do not reflect current and future water shortages, population shifts and ever-changing water treatment and well drilling technologies.
Fracking Threatens Drinking Water
For the last five years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been conducting a study on the potential impacts of fracking on drinking water. The study examined mechanisms within the fracking water lifecycle that could result in contamination of drinking water sources.