{"id":685137,"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.com\/index\/685137","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of N.J. residents sue DuPont for cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/crime_courts\/030410_Pompton_Lakes_residents_begin_suing_DuPont_over_pollution.html\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.northjersey.com\/images\/230%2A129\/MC_0207A_POMPTONLAKESEI.jpg?resize=297%2C166\" width=\"297\" align=\"right\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/05\/16\/\" >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<p>The first lawsuits, filed yesterday in New Jersey&#8217;s Passaic County Superior Court, also name as a defendant Oakland, N.J.-based Royle Systems Group LLC, which bought part of DuPont&#8217;s property in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Each lawsuit will be filed individually, according to New York-based Weitz &amp; Luxenberg PC, which is representing the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an enduring toxic legacy that spans decades,&#8221; said Lem Srolovic, an attorney at the firm, in a statement. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 450 homes have been exposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Groundwater\">groundwater<\/a> contaminated with potentially carcinogenic industrial solvents such as perchloroethylene, or PCE, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/TCE_contamination_of_groundwater\">trichloroethylene, or TCE<\/a>, used at DuPont&#8217;s facility, tests have shown. The state&#8217;s Department of Environmental Protection found in 2008 that the solvents were entering the basements of the houses in vapor form.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Environmental_Protection_Agency%2C_United_States\">U.S. EPA<\/a> in June. The company declined to comment on the new lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DuPont has not seen the complaints,&#8221; said Robert Nelson, a DuPont spokesman. &#8220;As a result, we have no response&#8221; (D&#8217;Aurizio\/O&#8217;Neill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/crime_courts\/030410_Pompton_Lakes_residents_begin_suing_DuPont_over_pollution.html\" > Bergen [N.J.] <em>Record<\/em><\/a>, March 4). <strong>&#8211; GN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3175&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3175\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Passaic County Superior Court, also name as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SeB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}