(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

Interview: Matt Smith, state director, Food & Water Watch
(AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)Elimination of the tax could slow cleanup efforts at ‘orphaned sites’ in New Jersey
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)During first term, Trump’s team undid or weakened hundreds of federal regulations on environment, energy and wildlife

(AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Order by Biden administration can be used to make polluters pay for cleanup
(AP Photo/Kimberly Chandler)American Chemistry Council's near-record spending on lobbying coincides with creation of new tax to pay for toxic cleanup nationwide
NJ Spotlight NewsDozens of former landfills, industrial waste sites and illegal toxic dumps in NJ have been transformed

Interview with podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore'
NJ Spotlight NewsRep. Pallone says it will lead to faster, more complete cleanup of polluted sites

EPA says upland portion of Universal Oil Products site could be redeveloped

Interview with podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore'

Many of the state's Superfund sites are situated along waterways prone to flooding

Coming May 18: A podcast series from NJ Spotlight News highlights the intersection of pollution and climate change in the Garden State

Lawmakers say New Jersey will lose out if President Trump's proposed budget gets approved because cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency will mean the end ...

Embedded in President Trump's proposed budget, deep cuts to women's health care and cancer screenings. And deep cuts to environmental cleanup in a state bounded ...

New poll numbers and a burst of activity as the Senate candidates head for the finish line. Plus, did the governor really change his mind ...

With the EPA lab in Edison still shuttered because of the government shutdown, furloughed federal employees say they have become pawns in a political fight ...