“For a start, the state should conduct a complete, and the word complete cannot be emphasized enough, energy rate impact of its Energy Master Plan (EMP) that includes all of the additional costs (e.g., transmission, tax incentives, state expenditures, etc.) that the...
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Midwest Is Most Robot-Dense Region
A recent report sponsored by the Century Foundation claims that industrial robots have not yet brought the dire nationwide effects that some people have warned about. “How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages” shows that the impact of automation...
New Jersey Marks a “Novel” First in Fighting Climate Change
“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...
Rutgers faculty releases report on transportation for individuals on autism spectrum
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...
Opinion: As Trump’s trial comes to an end, we must begin to mend our political divide
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...
Ex-Inmates Complete Newark Intervention Program
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...
We can't trust Trump to update a critical environmental law, professors say
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...
We can’t trust Trump to update a critical environmental law, professors say
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...
With 130-Mile Coast, New Jersey Marks a First in Climate Change Fight
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...
Expert explains biggest economic challenges facing Americans
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...