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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 Jersey [...]

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 [...]

- “The mayor is correct when he says this columnist is biased,” Agustin Torres writes in today’s Journal. “I am.” He points to literature from Healy’s earlier campaigns as proof that the mayor has failed to do what he said he’d do. As we reported yesterday, the mayor has declined a second forum that Torres [...]

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 [...]