Group says New Jersey toxic waste dumping caused $1B in harm, calls settlement inadequate
Source: https://dnyuz.com/, December 18, 2024
Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting.
Save Barnegat Bay and the township of Toms River between the state and German chemical company BASF under which the firm will pay $500,000 and carry out nine environmental remediation projects at the site of the former Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corporation plant. Read more.