The Jersey City Independent"

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 Jersey [...]

A memo leaked out of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) earlier this month amounts to a “gag order on environmental scientists,” critics contend, while open government advocates say the DEP is going too far in restricting information. The DEP, however, says the critics’ allegations are baseless.

The revised settlement between Jersey City, the state of New Jersey and PPG Industries regarding the cleanup of hexavalent chromium along Garfield Avenue was finalized this week, and the Jersey City Independent has obtained a copy.
The settlement, which was originally announced in February, underwent a public hearing process, where residents and environmental advocates raised a [...]

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, specifically [...]

As the city’s settlement with PPG Industries enters a one-month public comment period, many community members and environmental advocates say it isn’t tough enough, and some are continuing their own fights against what they call a rogue polluter.

- The fight over chromium cleanup at the former PPG Industries site at 900 Garfield Ave. may be heading to federal court. Yesterday the national environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), along with the Hoboken-based Interfaith Community Organization, filed a lawsuit against PPG in federal court that calls for the immediate cleanup of 900 [...]