[CPEO-BIF] Jersey City chromium lawsuit

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

File chromium suit; accord 'near'

By AMY SARA CLARK
JERSEY JOURNAL (NJ)
February 4, 2009

Fed up with waiting for Jersey City to complete negotiations with PPG 
Industries over the cleanup of 16.6-acres of chromium-contaminated 
industrial land on Garfield Avenue, a local citizens group and a 
national environmental organization have filed a lawsuit against the 
Pittsburgh-based company in federal court.

"These negotiations have been going on for over two years," said Al 
Huang, the National Resources Defense Council's environmental justice 
director. "With this amount of contamination of the site and with PPG 
failing to take action, we felt it was time for the community to stand up."

The NRDC filed the suit in federal court yesterday jointly with the 
Interfaith Community Organization, a Hoboken-based group that won a 
lawsuit in 2003 that forced Honeywell International to clean up a 
34-acre chromium-laced site along the Hackensack River.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-7/123373235933650.xml&coll=3

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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