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.
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Smarter Cities project this week singled out Jersey City as a leader in transportation innovation and smart transit. Jersey City is one of 15 metropolitan regions selected by NRDC and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in the new study, which compares and profiles U.S. cities based on public [...]
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.
Though our state is often the butt of jokes that paint it as a highway-choked, pollution-clogged asphalt wasteland, a new report by a national nonprofit shows New Jersey is among the national leaders in breaking automobile dependence. “Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change,” a new report from the Natural Resources [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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