[CPEO-BIF] Newark, New Jersey sues DuPoint over former Vanderpool facility

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Newark to company: clean up your toxins


By Naomi Nix
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
March 13, 2015 at 8:09 PM



NEWARK - Newark's city government has filed a lawsuit in federal  
court alleging E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company left a  
neighborhood contaminated with toxic chemicals for decades and never  
cleaned it up, officials announced today.

DuPont Co. and other companies profited off of a former pigment  
factory plant in the city's Ironbound neighborhood but also  
contaminated the land and water near the site, the city said in a  
statement.

According to the city, the New Jersey Department of Environmental  
Protection ordered DuPont to clean up the site of the former  
Vanderpool Facility, located at 256 Vanderpool Street, more than 30  
years ago. Since then, the corporation has done little to remediate  
the contamination which includes Hexavalent Chromium, lead and  
arsenic, the city alleges.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/03/ 
newark_files_lawsuit_against_dupont_over_contamina.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
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