Red Hook Container Terminals LLC will showcase its new fleet of ten BYD zero-emission battery electric yard tractors which are being operated in regular commercial duty service at its container terminal in Port Newark, New Jersey.
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A heavy-duty electric truck that might be coming to Newark and Camden thanks to new EDA program
The Murphy administration’s push to transition medium- and heavy-duty trucks to zero-emission vehicles, a proposal crucial to achieving its ambitious goal to reduce climate-warming pollution, won strong support Thursday from clean-energy advocates and surprisingly, little opposition from critics.
The state Department of Environmental Protection’s proposal aims to shift thousands of trucks from delivery vans to long-haul tractor trailers away from using fossil fuels to electric power, a policy that could put a huge dent in the amount of global-warming pollution contributed by the transportation sector.
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Newark Residents, 40+ groups call on Gov. Murphy and PVSC to Stop Fracked Gas Power Plant Proposed in Ironbound, Shift to Renewable Energy Plan May 13, 2021, 1:08 pm | in
Newark Residents, 40+ groups call on Gov. Murphy and PVSC to Stop Fracked Gas Power Plant Proposed in Ironbound, Shift to Renewable Energy Plan
Newark residents and a diverse coalition of environmental, faith and social justice organizations called into the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s board zoom meeting today to demand the agency stop their plans for a new fracked-gas power plant at their massive sewage processing facility in Newark’s Ironbound community.
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The five Middletown teens: Tyler Armagan, Ryan Day, Kieran Foley, Drew Scalice and Joey Dietrich are all students at Middletown High School North. (Provided by Kelly Walsh Day)
MIDDLETOWN, NJ Remember these young men? The five Middletown teen boys who jumped into a frozen pond this past December and saved two little kids in a sledding accident will be honored with a $7,500 prize this May.
The money is given out by the Russell Berrie Foundation, a Mahwah-based non-profit that gives out money annually to people across New Jersey.
Kieran Foley, Joseph Dietrich, Drew Scalice, Ryan Day, and Tyler Armagan all freshmen at Middletown High School North will be awarded the money in virtual award ceremony on May 7.
UTEP graduates will get to hear their names called as they cross the stage and have their photo taken before receiving their degrees at two in-person commencement ceremonies in May.
UTEP will allow graduating students to bring up to eight guests to the in-person commencement ceremonies scheduled May 14-15 at Sun Bowl Stadium.
The commencement ceremonies also will be open to 2020 graduates as well.
“We are in a much different place than last year at this time, in terms of the number of cases of COVID-19 and the number of people who have been vaccinated,” University of Texas at El Paso President Heather Wilson said in a news release.