New Jersey joined with Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia in declaring their commitment Thursday to develop an action plan that will put hundreds of thousands more zero-emission trucks and buses onto their roads. Mary Barber, director of regulatory and legislative affairs of the Environmental Defense Fund, told NJBIZ that ...

The project is the 34th from the utility's Solar 4 All initiative.

The Camden-based water and wastewater utility's leader Susan Story will retire in 2020, with COO Walter Lynch set to step into the role.

Derrick Dickens steps into the new position, which was developed to highlight programs and initiatives to transform the energy service and experience for Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco customers.

“The sale of this asset supports the goals of our strategic plan, to focus on our core business in New Jersey while identifying opportunities to strengthen our balance sheet,” President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Renna said.

The report has been endorsed by Environment New Jersey, the New Jersey Sustainable Business Council, the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, UU Faith Action NJ among others.

Consumers can now recycle the brand's Sweeper, Duster and WetJet refills.

The move creates the 15-year Transition Renewable Energy Certificate program — available for projects being worked on as of Oct. 29, 2018 that were not complete when New Jersey reached its 5.1 percent benchmark for energy sold in the state market.

Located in Atlantic City, the eight-megawatt combined heat and power generation facility provides electricity and hot and chilled water to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and The Water Club.

The project will replace approximately 2,890 feet of aging 6-inch water main.

Among its planned efforts for the future, the utility says it will reduce total employee incident cases and increase supplier diversity to 30 percent by 2023 through allocation to minority-, women-, veteran- and LGBTQ-owned suppliers.