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 years to complete, “was built through unionized labor and funded by New Jersey Resources with no cost to taxpayers.” https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/land-environment/2018/07/17/solar-panels-south-brunswi
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 connection with their businesses; “exposure to high levels [of VOCs]… can cause a variety of adverse human health effects, such as damage to the nervous system, liver, kidneys, and reproductive system… [are] harmful to unborn chi