Fair Lawn Environmental Commission

Join us in creating a safer community! 🌟 Drop off your unused or expired meds at our secure PROJECT MEDICINE DROP box 🚮. For liquid meds, swing by room 109 first. Open weekdays 8:30-4:30 at the police window in borough hall!

@NewsFallon Unfortunately, this is looking like the "new normal". Be safe everyone.

I haven't seen NJ flood forecasts this bad in a long time. Wednesday and Thursday are going to be brutal in some parts.

Join us Sunday, April 30th for an #ArborDay celebration 12pm - 2pm @ Berdan Grove Park #FairLawn #NewJersey

A farm in the middle of Brooklyn?! Don't think it's possible?! Check out Brooklyn Grange's NYC Rooftop Farm: youtube.com/watch?v=0W4i8M…

NEW So NJ enters a drought watch for the 1st time in 6 yrs. What worries folks is that Sept & Oct have been very warm and relatively dry in recent yrs. "It takes weeks and months to get into a drought & it takes weeks to get out of a drought." More: northjersey.com/story/news/env…

🕷 Send in your TICKS!! The Center for Vector Biology @RutgersU is asking for NJ citizens to send ticks for inclusion in an important database to fight tick-borne illness. 👉 tapinto.net/towns/passaic-…

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Major US cities like Newark, NJ are labeled as a heat island. A look at some of the factors that contribute to heat islands. uw-media.northjersey.com/embed/video/10…

How deep is the ocean?👀

Some NJ reservoir levels dropped significantly in July prompting calls to conserve water usage. Doesn’t look to get much better in the short term:

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

🔵 This 🟡 is 🟠 a 🔴 #ClimateEmergency. The 🌍 has already warmed by more than 1°C. We can still limit temperature rise to 1.5°C & avoid the worst climate impacts. But we need more ambition now. Countries must improve national climate plans before #COP27. ©️: @anttilip

SIGN THE PETITION: Demand More Time to Review Impacts from NJ's First Offshore Wind Project! Too many questions must be considered & answered about Ocean Wind 1. While green energy is an opportunity, the risks & rewards must be understood. change.org/OffshoreWindDo…

EPA finds no safe level for two toxic 'forever chemicals,' found in many U.S. water systems msn.com/en-us/news/us/…