
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (center) joined with the Essex County Vocational Technical School District March 2 to receive a $30,000 contribution from PSE&G to support the Green Energy Academy at Essex County Bloomfield Tech.
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Continuing its focus on energy issues, Dr. Daniela Shebitz, Professor of Ecology at Kean University will cover the concept of Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), discuss it’s impact on combating climate change and relate it to the broader theme of wetlands preservation. Following her presentation, there will be a general discussion of the proposed massive coal-fired power plant which will pilot the use of CCS technology in Linden, New Jersey.

PSE&G's Hope Creek nuclear plant located in Lower Alloways Creek in this 1995 file photo.
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The mouth of Avondale Creek in Alabama, into which a pipe maker dumped oil, lead and zinc.
A court ruling made the waterway exempt from the Clean Water Act.
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