December 3, 2024 | njspotlightnews.org Credit: Image by pencil parker from Pixabay New Jersey’s per-gallon gas tax will increase by 2.6 cents, starting on Jan. 1, according to officials from the state Department of the Treasury. The rate hike will bring the state’s per-gallon levy to 44.9 cents for gasoline, and 51.9 cents for diesel fuel, Treasury officials said. The tax increase is required under state law to ensure there is adequate funding for ongoing sta

December 3, 2024 | wastedive.com Credit: Credit: Image by Hans from Pixabay A class-action lawsuit from Ford County, Kansas, alleges groups like ACC, [American Chemical Council] Eastman, ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell lied about plastic recycling efforts. ACC calls the claim ‘meritless.’ Read More: Click Here NJ SEED: Why should a suit from a county in Kansas be of concern to NJ SEED? Because members of NJ SEED organizations are named in the litigation. The

November 26, 2024 | njspotlightnews.org Credit: Pictured - Portal North Bridge from NJ Transit Workers are preparing to move a massive arched span into place on the new Portal North Bridge on the Hackensack River. “Those spans are approximately 400 feet long, 85 feet tall, and about 55 feet wide,” said project manager Dan Payea with Skanska Group, “and we’ll be sliding it into position tomorrow, where it’ll sit in its final resting place on the pier.” Read M

November 27, 2024 | nypost.com Credit: Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay A French energy giant is halting a plan to build an offshore wind farm near the New York-New Jersey coastline following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month. TotalEnergies SE, the Paris-based oil and gas conglomerate, said it would halt the project in what industry observers say is a sign of things to come under a second Trump administration. Read More: Click H

November 27, 2024 | njspotlightnews.org Credit: Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay With its significant bonded debt and unfunded public-worker pension commitments, New Jersey has again landed near the bottom among the U.S. states in rankings released by a leading Wall Street credit-rating agency. The latest state-by-state liability analysis published by Fitch Ratings puts New Jersey 47th out of the 50 states in a key scoring of each state’s total long-te