Green Jersey

News roundup for Wednesday, June 11

New Jersey tomatoes were not the ones tainted with salmonella, says the state Agriculture Department.

The Long Branch City Council last night green-lighted a financial settlement with the developers of the Pier Village stores-restaurants-luxury homes complex — one that will cost city taxpayers $500,000 over three years.

Edison  yesterday rejected a proposed transit village.

After the recent storms, more than 100,000 people are still without power in just northeast New Jersey.

Federal environmental officials say Ringwood’s “Sludge Hill” is as clean as it can get.

Coastal homes will be even harder to insure now, anywhere a hurricane could theoretically reach them.

An environmental threat: “Stimulus” bills from the New Jersey Builders Association et al.