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  • Hudson County Improvement Authority - The HCIA has broad responsibility for recycling and solid waste management in Hudson County, NJ. Local recycling schedules.
  • New Jersey Pinelands Commission - The Pinelands Commission administers the 1.1 million acre Pinelands National Reserve in seven southern New Jersey counties and 53 municipalities. The Pinelands is a biosphere reserve, an example of the world's great ecological treasures.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.