First Of Its Kind With More To Follow: NJDEP Settlement Proposal Addresses PFAS Contamination
Co-Authored by Matthew L. Capone On June 28, 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) reached a proposed settlement with Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC (“Solvay”) over Solvay’s discharging of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) and other contaminants into public drinking water during Solvay’s thirty-year operation of a 243-acre chemical manufacturing plant in […]
NJDEP Publishes New PFAS Standards
On October 17, 2022, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) published interim soil remediation standards for several hazardous substances often characterized as “emerging contaminants.” Specifically, DEP established interim standards for perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid and its ammonium salt (GenX), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). Among […]
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