The dry weather means there's less storm water runoff pollutants, but the overall impact of lack of significant rainfall is having a negative impact on Barnegat Bay.
It happens every day on New Jersey roads: Used cigarette butts are tossed out car windows. Aside from the obvious risk of forest fires, discarded butts are taking a toll on our waterways and marine life.
Environmental and fishing groups are opposing a plan by three universities and the National Science Foundation to carry out seismic blast tests on the ocean floor off the New Jersey coast this summer.