NJDEP Goes after 5 Chemical Companies for Millions of Dollars Due to Contamination
NJDEP Goes after 5 Chemical Companies for Millions of Dollars Due to Contamination
Trenton, NJ — Clean Water Action praised NJDEP announcement today identifying 5 chemical companies — Solvay, DuPont, Dow DuPont, Chemours and 3M — as “responsible for extensive contamination and directing them to fund millions of dollars in assessment and cleanup efforts” (see NJDEP release embedded below).
“It’s great to see NJDEP going after these polluters to protect public health and the environment,” stated Clean Water Action’s David Pringle, who made the initial request for state action on PFAS chemicals over a decade ago as a member of NJDEP’s Drinking Water Quality Institute. “Thanks especially to DuPont, who from the very beginning fought vigorously to avoid any responsibility for its own actions, it’s taken too long to take the necessary steps to effectively address PFAS contamination. However, with adoption of stronger standards in the past year and today’s actions we’re really moving in the right direction. These polluters have been profiting from PFAS chemicals for years and now to need to pay for it — the cleanup, the natural resource damages, and pollution prevention. Making polluters pay is not only a matter of fundamental fairness but also a deterrent to future wrongful acts — after all, any 5 year old knows, if you make the mess, you clean it up!”
Addressing PFAS chemical contamination, especially in drinking water, is a top priority of Clean Water Action. More info. can be found on Clean Water Action’s website at:
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