The impact of climate change goes far beyond the obvious issues of public safety and disaster planning, participants stressed during a conference held yesterday at Rutgers University. New Jersey should be considering future costs, long-term health risk…
Getting the Facts on Farmland Assessments
Despite the size and cost of New Jersey’s farmland-assessment program, there is no straightforward repository of information about all the properties receiving a tax break under it…In preparing its 2008 report on the potential impact of revising the …
Fight Over Labels for Genetically Modified Food Comes to New Jersey
State legislators are weighing whether all genetically modified foods should be labeled, as New Jersey has become the latest battleground in a national debate over the practice…Since there is no scientific difference, the FDA has found no reason to i…
Insurance Carrier Funds Activities to Fight Childhood Obesity
While much of the emphasis on combating childhood obesity in New Jersey has focused on diet, a major insurance company is promoting increased activity as another way to fight the problem. UnitedHealthcare’s HEROES program awards $1,000 grants to help f…
Ten Years to Rebuild Smarter, More Resilient Jersey Shore, Experts Say
It will take a decade to rebuild the Jersey Shore, and when it is done its economy may be different and there may be a much smaller population, according to a disaster expert who oversaw the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina…&#…
