Green Jersey

News roundup for Thursday, July 3

Hasbrouck Heights High School’s artificial turf athletic field has been closed due to above-normal lead levels, the schools superintendent said today. That’s the seventh lead-related field closure in New Jersey.

Thales, an Edison company, reported a small toxic chemical leak yesterday.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey report more nesting eagles than ever this year, one year after the U.S. government removed eagles from the endangered species list.

Blogger: Don’t bug the dolphins.

Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River, meanwhile, have delayed the demolition of the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge. (Sea Bright Councilwoman Dina Long had asked for a few extra days to allow dolphins to swim out to Sandy Hook Bay and the ocean.)

Six people and groups from New Jersey — Margo Pellegrino, Marie Springer of Friends of Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, middle school science teacher David Crawford, Hackensack Riverkeeper Captain Bill Sheehan, the Pequannock River Coalition of Passaic County, and Maplewood (in the “Federal, State, Local or Tribal Government or Agency” category) — were honored recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their good works.