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Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater Festival

 

Monmouth County Friends of
Clearwater
Festival
"It's Up To Us"

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Amazing Solution to Help Clean Up Oil Spill

You’ve got to watch this….will make you scratch your head and wonder.

This has to be the simplest, most effective way to do it!!  Read more »

TOXIC: Garbage Island

Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. ....  Read more »

Water Quality Report - May 2009

  • Press Release - 5/20/09
    Report shows water quality problems at Shore: Groups call on State to protect ocean health
     
  • Report - PDF
    Ocean Water Quality in New Jersey: Redirecting the Management Effort

 

NYT Editorial- "Ocean Rescue"

Most of the world’s important commercial fish species have been declining for years. Nearly one-fourth are unable, essentially, to reproduce. The biggest cause of the deterioration in ocean health — bigger than climate change or pollution — is overfishing. American fisheries are in better shape than most but not by much.

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Gasoline spill on Staten Island near Newark Bay

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- Officials were cleaning up a massive fuel spill in Newark Bay Monday night.

The Coast Guard said as much as 5,000 gallons of gasoline spilled into the water near the Bayonne Bridge.

Coast Guard officials said it was a barge to barge transfer that was taking place when the spill occurred around 6 p.m.

The closest area of land is the Richmond Terrace section of Staten Island.  Read more »

5,000 Gallons of Gasoline Spills into Newark Bay

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- Officials were cleaning up a massive fuel spill in Newark Bay Monday night.

The Coast Guard said as much as 5,000 gallons of gasoline spilled into the water near the Bayonne Bridge.

Coast Guard officials said it was a barge to barge transfer that was taking place when the spill occurred around 6 p.m.

The closest area of land is the Richmond Terrace section of Staten Island.  Read more »

Earth Day Thoughts

"All individuals and institutions have a mutual responsibility now to act as Trustees of Earth, seeking the choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, foster peaceful progress and realise the best potential for the future of the human adventure."
-- John McConnell, founder of Earth Day
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