The Ocean County Library is presenting a program about New Jersey’s environment, its impacts, and ways that residents can address them. “Civic Participation in Cancer Alley” will take place  Monday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at the main branch in Toms River, and will be simulcast virtually.

Independent author, journalist and environmental scientist Thomas Belton will lead the interactive discussion in Mancini Hall. The program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Belton devoted 25 years to biological and aquatic research in the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection.