Green Jersey

News roundup for Tuesday, Sept. 30

Birds of prey have begun to fly south over New Jersey, and scientists are counting them and determining how healthy they are. (For best viewing, Don Freiday, director of the Cape May Observatory’s birding program, recommends going after a cold front has passed and when winds are coming from the northwest.)

Wastewater treatment plans that discharge phosphorus into the Passaic River will soon be able to continue doing that… if the price is right. A new credit-trading program intends to improve water quality and save taxpayer money.

Three democratic state assembly members — Joan Quigley, L. Grace Spencer and L. Harvey Smith — have introduced a bill that would make landlords entirely responsible for keeping apartments bedbug-free.

Somerset County added 58 acres to the Sourland Mountain Preserve there, thanks to its new lease, from 3M, of three tracts in Hillsborough.

While an offshore wind farm may not be happening here yet, DeepwaterWind, a New Jersey firm, has applied to develop one off the coast of Rhode Island (and won approval from Rhode Island to do it).

The SeaStreak ferry, recently made cheaper, is still really expensive.