Share/Save It’ll be take number two this Thursday as representatives from PPG Industries, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the city — operating as the joint entity known as the Chromium Cleanup Partnership — will brief residents on the progress of the chromium cleanup along Garfield Avenue and discuss measures being taken to [...]
Share/SaveThe New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has levied a $860,000 fine against Newark-based TVF Pest Control for “misapplication of hazardous pesticides in residences to control bedbugs” during work done in Jersey City and other locations. The fine comes on the heels of a DEP investigation last summer that found TVF used chemicals not [...]
Share/SaveResidents interested in the latest developments regarding PPG Industries’ chromium cleanup along Garfield Avenue are being invited to a public meeting about the issue this Thursday. Representatives from PPG, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the city — operating as the joint entity known as the Chromium Cleanup Partnership — will brief residents [...]
Share/Save This map shows an overview of the pipeline project; for a more detailed look at the proposed pipeline’s path through Jersey City, click here Nestled into a morning story on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ (BPU) decision to intervene in a federal natural gas rate increase case is the news that the [...]
Share/SaveJersey City will receive a $267,674 grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to assist local recycling efforts, the highest figure in the Garden State, the DEP announced last week. The Recycling Tonnage Grant, part of $13 million the DEP is awarding around the state, is based on the amount of solid [...]
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has filed a motion to intervene in the federal application of Texas-based Spectra Energy’s plan to run a natural gas pipeline through Jersey City into Manhattan. The short three-page letter was filed Friday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), just a few days after Jersey City filed its motion seeking intervenor status.
Jersey City will soon add another former Superfund site to the list of open space parks along the city’s bordering waterways, as it once again reclaims land — this time the old PJP landfill — once thought lost to an industrial past.
Share/SaveThe state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is reminding New Jerseyans that all electronic waste — like old TVs, computers and computer monitors — must be recycled rather than thrown out as the new year begins. The policy change was ushered in by the Electronic Waste Management Act, which bans the disposal of televisions and [...]
Share/SaveThe Independent’s office will be closed Friday for the holiday; this will be the last news roundup until Monday. Happy new year, all! – Winter Storm: Jersey City residents aren’t the only ones frustrated by the pace of cleanup post-storm, and municipalities across the state say the slower-than-usual response was in part due to budget [...]
Ward F residents have been complaining about the noxious odors generated by Reliable Wood Products for years, but the smell persists. A civil lawsuit filed this week by Jersey City against the mulching company seeks to change that.
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