Environment
Regional policy, industrial remediation, and climate resilience across New York and New Jersey and the region. Core recurring topics include drinking water quality, toxic site cleanup, stormwater management, energy transition impacts, and regulatory reforms that balance state environmental mandates with regional economic growth.
Environment
New Jersey storm resource directory
Power out? Use our directory to track outages across New Jersey, report lost service directly to your utility and find nearby cooling centers during extreme heat.
Climate Resilience
Federal judge strikes down New York’s controversial climate superfund law
A federal judge has blocked New York from enforcing its controversial Climate Change Superfund Act, which sought to collect $75 billion in legal damages from major energy, utility and fuel companies over the 25 years. The court found the program was beyond the limits of state law.
Environment
What’s happening at the Cornell-Dubliner Superfund site in South Plainfield?
Cleaning up a Superfund site involves much more than removing contaminated soil.
At the former Cornell-Dubilier Electronics facility in South Plainfield, decades of industrial activity contaminated buildings, groundwater, nearby properties and Bound Brook. The cleanup has required demolition, excavation, thermal treatment, groundwater extraction and years of monitoring.
This deep dive examines how Superfund sites are investigated, how cleanup methods are selected, who pays for the work and why protecting a community can take decades.
Energy
CHPE Brings Canadian Hydropower to NY
The Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) is now operational, delivering clean hydropower from Hydro-Québec to New York City. The 339-mile transmission line can provide enough renewable electricity to meet up to 20% of the city's annual power needs while strengthening grid reliability during periods of peak demand.
Climate Resilience
Satellite images show massive Atlantic seaweed belt reaches record size
New satellite imagery shows the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has grown to nearly 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
While the floating seaweed supports marine life in the open ocean, massive blooms washing ashore can impact coastal ecosystems, tourism, and local economies. Scientists continue studying the environmental factors driving its expansion.
Environment
Raw Sewage in the streets – New Jersey’s dirty little secret
When heavy rain hits cities like Newark, Jersey City and Camden, it can overwhelm century-old sewer systems and send a mixture of stormwater and untreated sewage into nearby waterways. New Jersey has combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls across 21 municipalities, discharging an estimated 23 billion gallons of sewage and stormwater each year.
Energy
Hochul signs major reforms to New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) law
Governor Hochul and state lawmakers have approved significant changes to the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), including extending emissions reduction timelines, adopting a 100-year emissions accounting standard and requiring future regulations to consider affordability, reliability and economic impacts.
Data Centers
The race to cool AI: How modern data centers keep from overheating
Not all data centers are cooled the same way. As AI pushes computing power to new heights, operators are rethinking how they keep servers from overheating. This deep dive examines six cooling technologies that are transforming modern data centers.
Economic Development
Infrastructure Update – week of May 18, 2026
This Week in Policy, Energy Infrastructure & Transportation
Energy
New Jersey’s nuclear legacy and its next chapter
New Jersey’s nuclear story is entering a new era. From Oyster Creek’s historic beginnings to Salem and Hope Creek powering millions of homes today. After decades of limits on new development, the state is once again opening the door to nuclear energy to help meet rising demand and strengthen grid reliability.
Drinking Water
PFAS and the struggle for clean water: How “forever chemicals” became a defining infrastructure challenge
A new kind of water crisis has been unfolding, driven not by visible pollution or failing pipes, but by PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals” found in drinking water across the state. While federal standards lagged for years, New Jersey moved early, building its own testing programs and enforcing strict limits. Read more on how New Jersey became a national leader in the fight against PFAS.
Environment
Faces of Infrastructure: Garrett Eucalitto
Meet Garrett Eucalitto, the force behind Connecticut’s infrastructure push. From roads to rail, it’s about delivering real projects, and the skilled workforce making it happen.
Environment
New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) at the crossroads: SEQRA’s impact on housing and infrastructure, and the debate over reform
SEQRA, once a pioneering environmental law, is now at the center of a debate about how the state can address its housing crisis and build for the future while protecting the environment.