[CPEO-BIF] "DuPont and Chemours sued by New Jersey over pollution in Pompton Lakes and other sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DuPont and Chemours sued by New Jersey over pollution in Pompton Lakes and other sites


by Scott Fallon and James M. O’Neill
North Jersey Record (NJ)
March 27, 2019

New Jersey sued chemical giant DuPont on Wednesday seeking financial damages for widespread pollution that contaminated air, soil and water at four sites across the state and endangered the health of thousands, including residents of a Pompton Lakes neighborhood who have had to endure cancer-causing solvents beneath their homes for decades.

State officials said the lawsuits target four New Jersey manufacturing sites where the government allegesDuPont spent almost a century haphazardly discarding toxic waste that often migrated to surrounding communities.

Chemours, a DuPont spinoff company, and chemical company 3M are also named in some of the four DuPont lawsuits filed Wednesday in state Superior Court.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2019/03/27/dupont-nj-chemours-over-pompton-lakes-nj-pollution-chambers-works-phil-murphy-nrd/3279022002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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