From landfill to clean energy: NJ Superfund site transformed into solar panel project
This month, Republic Services and New Jersey Resources Clean Energy Venture (CEV) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of their clean energy project, which consisted of 40,000 solar panels installed at a South Brunswick Superfund site. From 1959-1979, the site served as a landfill before undergoing remediation in the early 1980s; “[s]ince then, the Superfund site's 68 acres of land have remained unused.” The $20 million solar panel project, which took five
U.S. files complaint under CERCLA against two NY companies
This month the U.S. initiated a CERCLA suit against IMC Eastern Corporation (“IMC”) and Island Transportation Corporation (“ITC”), to recover the cleanup costs associated with groundwater contamination at the New Cassel/Hicksville Groundwater Contamination Superfund Site. The site, located in Nassau County, NY, is approximately 6.5 square miles and includes residential, commercial and industrial areas. IMC and ITC allegedly used hazardous substances, namely VOCs, in connectio