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A year after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a fracking waste ban measure, Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center has released a new report that measures the damage being done by dirty drilling across the country.

A Somers Point man has been charged with repeatedly shooting protected hawks from his back door.

A New Jersey appeals court ruled Thursday that the state Department of Environmental Protection was within its rights last year to adopt a new rule that lets officials waive many of their own rules upon request.

In what's being touted as a compromise, the Christie Administration today announced plans to build an artificial reef exclusively for recreational fishing on Barnegat Inlet, while allowing commercial fishing interests to access parts of two reefs off Sandy Hook and Manasquan.

Officials from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection went before the Assembly Budget Committee today, to discuss their proposed fiscal year 2013 spending plan.