(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
(AP Photo/Brittany Peterson, File)We're making progress on the harmful remnants of an industrial boom, and funding scarcity threatens to set back the whole state
(NJ Spotlight News/Taylor Jung)Trump administration has eliminated one third of the EPA regional staffing that serves the state, making progress 'nearly impossible,' Pallone says
(Grist / Anna Mattson)Scarce screening in East Trenton -- now a Superfund site -- points to a fragile public safety net for contaminated towns across the country
Ted Goldberg Jeff Van Drew (R-2nd) toured the former Kil-Tone Superfund site in Vineland
(Ted Goldberg/NJ Spotlight News)Legislation would authorize state treasurer to fine companies for greenhouse gas emissions


The sites are the Matlack, Inc., Raritan Bay Slag, and Roebling Steel Company

NJ sites in West Deptford, Byram and South Plainfield awarded Superfund cleanup money

Can the Hackensack River be cleaned up before the next big storm?

Now climate change adds to threat caused by the toxic mess at bottom of the river
(NJ Spotlight News)It’s been almost four decades since the river was listed as a Superfund priority. Only now are cleanup plans taking shape

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

EPA proposes adding last 19 miles of Lower Hackensack River to National Superfund Priorities list

Trump's proposed budget gets put to the test. Calculating the cost to New Jersey of cuts to programs for the working poor. Closing the wage ...

The proposed federal budget cuts Medicaid by $600 billion over ten years, on top of the $880 billion planned cut from the Republican health care ...

Three months after the EPA announced the price tag for cleaning up a Superfund site in Newark, the company that bought polluter Diamond Alkali went ...

The Passaic River's poisoned. Could the guilty corporations be using federal bankruptcy laws to get out of paying for the cleanup? With anti-pollution regulations under ...

Opponents of President Trump's proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency say the reduction would lead to more pollution and dangerous conditions nationwide.

Cruising through airport security at Newark just got faster and more efficient. But can it also make us safer? Can relaxing environmental regulations make us ...