{"id":402905,"date":"2010-03-08T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2010-03-08T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:58:52","slug":"hundreds-of-n-j-residents-sue-dupont-for-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402905","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of N.J. residents sue DuPont for cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Greenwire<\/a>: About 350 residents of Pompton Lakes, N.J., have begun filing lawsuits against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., seeking cleanup of water contamination caused by a munitions plant that operated in the city between 1902 and 1994.<\/p>\n

The first lawsuits, filed yesterday in New Jersey’s Passaic County Superior Court, also name as a defendant Oakland, N.J.-based Royle Systems Group LLC, which bought part of DuPont’s property in 1976.<\/p>\n

Each lawsuit will be filed individually, according to New York-based Weitz & Luxenberg PC, which is representing the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

“This is an enduring toxic legacy that spans decades,” said Lem Srolovic, an attorney at the firm, in a statement. “These corporations first mishandled and improperly disposed of dangerous chemicals, then, adding insult to injury, opted out of their responsibility to clean up those wastes.”<\/p>\n

About 450 homes have been exposed to groundwater<\/a> contaminated with potentially carcinogenic industrial solvents such as perchloroethylene, or PCE, and trichloroethylene, or TCE<\/a>, used at DuPont’s facility, tests have shown. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection found in 2008 that the solvents were entering the basements of the houses in vapor form.<\/p>\n

DuPont has agreed to clean up contaminated groundwater and install vents to dissipate the vapor. It is scheduled to submit plans for those efforts to state regulators and U.S. EPA<\/a> in June. The company declined to comment on the new lawsuits.<\/p>\n

“DuPont has not seen the complaints,” said Robert Nelson, a DuPont spokesman. “As a result, we have no response” (D’Aurizio\/O’Neill, Bergen [N.J.] Record<\/em><\/a>, March 4). – GN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greenwire: About 350 residents of Pompton Lakes, N.J., have begun filing lawsuits against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., seeking cleanup of water contamination caused by a munitions plant that operated in the city between 1902 and 1994. The first lawsuits, filed yesterday in New Jersey’s Passaic County Superior Court, also name as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}