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“It would certainly seem that New Jersey would really be taking a big leap here,” said Jeanne Herb, director of the environmental analysis group Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Other states, like Rhode Island, are moving...

Cecilia Feeley, transportation autism project manager at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), and Andrea Lubin, a senior research specialist at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, were two members involved in this report. They used...

At some point, our political divide must mend, at least enough that our government can operate as a functioning democracy. When cooperation is absent we get the gridlock that characterizes our polarized nation. And it may appear, to a dismayed and frustrated...

Nancy Wolff, Rutgers University distinguished professor, discussed three factors that influence a program's effectiveness. The type of treatment is less important than how a facilitator delivers the treatment, Wolff says. If a facilitator is consistent, present and...

By Stuart Shapiro and Michael Greenberg Earlier this month, the Trump Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality proposed changes to their regulations on the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler...

Jeanne Herb, director of the environmental analysis group at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said the school issued a report in March that evaluated New Jersey’s climate-change policies in relation to 14 other...

The issue of national debt is in focus as the Treasury Department reports the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019. Rutgers University Economist William Rodgers III joins Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman and Sibile Marcellus, along with Retail Expert Erin...

The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state's energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition's cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be carried out...

Still another example: "A pedestrian was hit and killed" was changed to "A pedestrian was hit and killed by a car." Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there's no widespread public pressure to improve road safety...