Rutgers experts, including Jeanne Herb of the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, provide sound science and evidence-based...
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Resilience and the Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony – 11th Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
Resilience and the Raritan Friday, June 7, 2019 Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, New Jersey...
SRRI releases State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2
Rutgers University’s Sustainable Raritan River Initiative has released a second report on the status of watershed health for the Raritan River. The...
EAC’s Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw Produces Story Map to Inform Offshore Wind Planning
Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw produced a new story map that shows how the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal is being used to inform discussions on potential...
History of the Raritan River Timeline
During Spring Semester, 2019, Jenny Schneider, a candidate for the Rutgers Public History Program Certificate (School of Arts and Sciences,...
Sustainable Raritan Conference to focus on climate resilience
This year’s Sustainable Raritan River conference will be a joint effort with Rutgers Climate Institute, New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, and ...
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll indicates New Jerseyans are concerned about climate change but lack knowledge
Two-thirds of New Jerseyans are concerned about the impact that climate change will have on them, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll...
EAC Executive Director discusses climate change and health equity with Comcast Newsmakers
Jeanne Herb was interviewed by Jill Horner of Comcast News on April 18, 2019 about the lessons on health and climate change equity that Jeanne...
Call for Lightning Talks and Posters for June Conference
Promote your work or solicit input. It’s open to everyone! Do you have a Raritan based project you want to tell others about? The Sustainable...
Tracking Genes and Bacteria Responsible for Organohalide Reduction in the Raritan River Basin
The Raritan River receives wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, stormwater runoff, combined sewer overflow (CSO), and groundwater...
Recent Products
Environmental Justice and Social Injustice: Ethnic, Racial, Economic and Other Marginalized People and Communities
This virtual issue provides a compendium of papers from the 1980's through the present that examine some of the risks and disadvantages that people and communities experience as a result of environmental injustices. Environmental injustice is one form of social...
Transition Plan for the Return of Local Control to Newark Public Schools Final Report
In a unanimous vote, the New Jersey State Board of Education gave final approval to returning the Newark Public School system to full local control on July 1, 2020, after 25 years of state intervention. The Newark school board regained full control of the school...
Nuclear Power, Weapons and Waste Management: A 40-year Retrospective
Our aim with this virtual issue is to provide a compendium of papers that examines the range of risks and benefits of nuclear power, weapons production, waste management, and associated human dimensions of these risks and benefits to society and individuals. Papers...
A Seat at the Table: Integrating the Needs and Challenges of Underrepresented and Socially Vulnerable Populations into Coastal Hazards Planning in New Jersey
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Coastal Management Program received a Project of Special Merit (PSM) grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of NOAA’s Coastal Hazards & Cumulative and Secondary Impacts...