Stafford Township was awarded $5 million last week from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Natural Climate Solutions Grant Program as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Stafford, one of five grant recipients in the category of living shoreline restoration, was awarded for its Popular Point Restoration Project.

DEP Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced on Wednesday, Jan. 18 the grants totaling $24.3 million to local governments and nonprofits to create, restore…