Congressman Frank Pallone, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has embraced the Green New Deal promoted by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Pallone’s “100% clean economy” with net-zero carbon emissions is “aggressively” targeted to be achieved by 2050, twenty years following the end of AOC’s world.
With a nod to The Squad, Pallone and six other Democrats on his committee held a press conference in Washington on Tuesday in an effort to convince the world that 2050 is the point of no return from climate change, not 2030, as AOC insists. Read the rest of this entry »
With tens thousands of Monmouth County residents expected to be without power for the rest of the week, Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden’s Office has shared safety warnings for the use of generators and food safety tips for when the power comes back on.
Neptune Township has closed its municipal offices including the library, police records, and municipal court, according to an announcement via nixle. Read the rest of this entry »
Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden announced that free ice and water is available for the 98,974 JCP&L customers still without power at 10 a.m. this morning.
The locations distributing water and ice are listing below the fold
Photo via Howell Police Department’s facebook page
39% of Monmouth County’s JCP&L customers remain without power this morning in the aftermath of the summer storm that blew through Central Jersey last night. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The full House of Representatives passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) which directs the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense to investigate the “possible involvement of DOD biowarfare labs in the weaponization of Lyme disease in ticks and other insects” from 1950-1975.
According to Smith, he was “inspired to write the amendment”—now part of the House-passed 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—by “a number of books and articles suggesting that significant research had been done at U.S. government facilities including Fort Detrick, Maryland and Plum Island, New York to turn ticks and other insects into bioweapons.”