An alliance of 20 environmental groups, businesses, local officials and individuals came together Wednesday morning to fight offshore drilling. Held under a the barrage of rain outside of Langosta Lounge on the Asbury Park boardwalk, the event aimed to rally all New Jersey residents to attend the only public meeting being held in the state on […]

dEditor, Asbury Park Sun, We are concerned that we have seen more rip currents this year and more people have died as a result. [Rip currents have killed eight people at New Jersey beaches this year — the most since the National Weather Service began tracking rip current-related fatalities in 1998. The second-highest was six […]

Across from the recently developed Springwood Avenue Park, a group of city and state environmental officials gathered alongside US Congressman Frank Pallone [D-NJ] to speak to the importance of assessing and cleaning up Brownfields sites across the state. The site, located at Sylvan Avenue between Adams Street and Springwood Avenue, will be among those in […]

Jersey shore native Margo Pellegrino is on a mission to raise awareness of the ocean’s declining state of affairs one paddle stroke at a time. The mother of two is in the midst of a two-year clean water paddle campaign from the Big Apple to the Big Easy. To date she has paddled over 5,000 […]

With just three days’ notice, hundreds organized on the Asbury Park boardwalk in front of Langosta Lounge to protest the exploration for offshore oil and its potential to open the Atlantic Ocean to drilling for the first time in over 30 years. “Greeting from Asbury Park,” Mayor John Moor said as he opened the Sunday […]