[CPEO-BIF] "EPA gets $22 million for cleanup of South Plainfield [New Jersey] Superfund site; environmentalists wanted more"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA gets $22 million for cleanup of South Plainfield Superfund site; environmentalists wanted more

by Sue Epstein
NJ Advance Media 
March 19, 2015 

NEW BRUNSWICK - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has received $22 million from the main polluter of a South Plainfield Superfund site toward the multi-million cleanup of the property.

But, Jeff Tittel, director of the NJ Sierra Club, isn't pleased.

"We believe that this settlement does not actually clean up the site and lets the polluters off the hook," Tittle said.

The EPA said it has already spent more than $180 million cleaning up the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Inc. site on Hamilton Boulevard and expects to spend hundreds of millions more during the fourth phase of its four-phase project during which the groundwater under the Bound Brook will be cleaned up.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/03/epa_announces_receipt_of_22_million_toward_cleanup.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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