By settling a federal lawsuit by an alliance of environmental and community groups, PPG Industries has agreed to strengthen the standards being used to cleanup toxic chromium waste on Garfield Avenue.
PPG Industries has now agreed to excavate and remove an estimated 708,000 tons of chromium waste and contaminated soil from Garfield Avenue, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Jersey City announced today.
A federal judge yesterday tossed PPG Industries’ motion to reconsider an earlier court decision that allowed a coalition of local groups and environmentalists to continue a federal lawsuit to push for a stringent cleanup of chromium contamination in Jersey City. The groups — national nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and local groups Interfaith Community [...]
In a ruling handed down Friday, U.S. District Judge Joseph Greenaway said that a coalition of local groups and environmentalists can continue a federal lawsuit to push for stricter cleanup of chromium contamination in Jersey City than the cleanup called for in last year’s multi-party settlement and consent judgment.
In the wake of the city’s final approval of the settlement it, along with the state, negotiated with PPG Industries to clean up chromium-contaminated land along Garfield Avenue and in other spots around the city, the community group GRACO announced today that it is joining the federal lawsuit against PPG brought by the Interfaith Community [...]
With its hand forced by the petitions for rulemaking filed in early May by the Interfaith Community Organization (ICO), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Jersey City community group GRACO, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced today that it will develop “final standards” for cleaning up chromium-contaminated soil — by 2011. “New [...]
Photos: Steve Gold Turnout was relatively light at Wednesday’s meeting of the City Council, the first regular meeting since late April. About 25 people were in the audience for the meeting, which lasted a little less than two hours. Among them was newly elected Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez. Council president Mariano Vega kicked [...]
On Monday, a coalition of community and environmental groups filed petitions for rulemaking with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), asking the agency to adopt more stringent standards for hexavalent chromium cleanup. The petitions, sent by the Interfaith Community Organization (ICO), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Jersey City community group GRACO, [...]
All Photos: Steve Gold Wednesday night’s City Council meeting clocked in at around the 3.5 hour mark, as the council and the public wrestled with animal control and environmental issues, among other items. All nine council members were in attendance. Ward E councilman Steven Fulop left the meeting early. Animal Control Oversight The pair of [...]
- The City Council met last night, and a number of people spoke on behalf of Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop’s ordinances that would create an Animal Control Commission and an Animal Control Ombudsman. Both of those ordinances were introduced at the meeting, though several council members said they had “concerns” with both pieces of [...]
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