[CPEO-BIF] Fenimore Landfill, Roxbury, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[As I understand it, this is a former Superfund National Priorities  
List site that accepted demolition debris after Hurricane Sandy. The  
intent was to turn it into a solar farm. - LS]

Pioneering environmental crusader urges political fight in Roxbury

By MIKE CONDON
Roxbuy Register (NJ)
May 30, 2014

ROXBURY TWP. - For more than two hours, long-time, world-famous  
environmental activist Lois Gibbs held more than 150 township  
residents at attention.

When she spoke about the Fenimore landfill Wednesday night at the  
Roxbury Senior Center at Horseshoe Lake, one could hear that  
proverbial pin hit the floor.
Some of the news she brought to the residents concerned about ill- 
health affects from the state Department of Environmental  
Protection’s (DEP’s) landfill remediation project was good; some was  
not so good.
But, she knew how to command the room.

She laid the blame for what she called a disaster and a tragedy at  
the feet of Gov. Chris Christie, and said that in more than 35 years,  
she has never seen a pollution situation this bad, where no soil test  
results are even available.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newjerseyhills.com/roxbury_register/news/pioneering- 
environmental-crusader-urges-political-fight-in-roxbury/ 
article_4471a372-e75d-11e3-8a90-0019bb2963f4.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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