Environment

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.newsThe government energy aggregation Montclair joined over the summer, part of an effort to seek cleaner energy at lower rates, will probably not get that energy until next year.Montclair teamed up...

By Wilma Hurwitz for Montclair LocalThere’s a revolution in transportation happening right in front of our eyes – new plug-in cars that spew out no air pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly, cost less for...

Although legislation that would ban plastic bags throughout the state picked up momentum last week, Montclair is still pushing its businesses to act now in the reduction of single-use plastics.

The Montclair Environmental Commission is tackling residents’ complaints of an increase of deer grazing in their backyards.

Trina Paulus released hundreds of Monarch Butterflies in her Montclair home. Last Saturday they were released in Crane Park.

PHOTOS BY KATE ALBRIGHTApproximately 200 people showed up for the end-of-summer Crane Park Monarch Butterfly release on Sept. 15. About 300 butterflies were raised by Trina Paulus author of “Hope for the Flowers”. Neighbors of...

The North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, which cleared over 70 trees at Alfonzo F. Bonsal Preserve in July in maintenance of its waterline, has been issued a notice of violation by the Department of Environmental Protection.

Underneath much of Montclair runs a bubbling brook covered and culverted long ago to make way for sewers and development.

Would you pay $38 a year to create and maintain more open space in Montclair?

Who’s watering Montclair’s new trees? Apparently, no one.“An alarming number” of the 332 trees newly planted by the township are dead and dying due to a combination of lack of water and the harsh, hot summer weather.