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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...

For those of us who follow politics, the past three years have been dizzying. Opponents and proponents of President Donald Trump would likely agree that the pace of news coming out of Washington is unprecedented. Some of this is a function of social media. But much of...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the hotspotting model are greatly exaggerated," said Rutgers University professor Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy, before the California results dropped. Cantor has worked closely with the...