(Genesis Obando/NJ Spotlight News)Remediation efforts center upon the 17-mile stretch of the Passaic that flows from Dundee Dam to Newark Bay
(Genesis Obando/NJ Spotlight News)Remediation efforts center upon the 17-mile stretch of the Passaic that flows from Dundee Dam to Newark Bay
(Genesis Obando/NJ Spotlight News)More delays possible as OxyChem fights EPA consent decree
(Michael Sol Warren/NJ Spotlight News)At issue — how and where some toxic materials dredged from the river will be treated

New Jersey deserves a better deal from Passaic polluters
(NJ Spotlight News)Toxic mud and sediment will be targeted for cleanup

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is sending dollars from pollution settlements back into the community to build up the waterfront around the Lower ...

A holiday rush to pass measures on salary hikes and outside income for the state's top tier. Could one of them torpedo your newspaper? A ...

To clean up a Superfund site along the Passaic River, the EPA secured a $165 million settlement with Occidental Chemical. The agency believes that will ...

Prepare to kiss cheap Jersey gas goodbye. Lawmakers vote to raise the gas tax to pay for road and bridge repairs. Tough talk to dissolve ...

The EPA announced it will get dozens of companies to pay $1.4 billion to clean up toxic waste they dumped into the lower eight miles ...

It's one of the costliest Superfund cleanups in history. Polluters must pay more than $1 billion to dredge the Passaic River mud poisoned by mercury, ...

A billion dollar Superfund cleanup of the Passiac River. Shut it down. We'll show you ways around the Pulaski Skyway. And a dune holdout says ...

Political leaders and environmentalists gathered on the Newark side of the Passaic River to announce the largest environmental cleanup in the history of the EPA.

Sen. Buono tries to lower the boom on a controversial ad campaign. Plus, new poll numbers giving good news to the Senate frontrunners. And we ...

The EPA announced a dredging project to remove contaminated sediment on a half mile stretch of the Passaic River that has high levels of PCBs, ...


Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin talks about the organization's actions on preventing fracking, alternative energy, public access to waterways and the cleanup of ...