I always thought it was a little cruel to call New Jersey the Garden State. We’re famous for our pollution. The state has more Superfund sites than another other, 114, and I grew up near four of them in Newark, a particular nexus for toxic filth. The tap water is often poisonous. Our industrial zone has several waste management and processing plants. Soon, just under 2 miles from my front door here, another plant may rise, where “biosolids” or treated waste, aka poop would be funneled in, heated to 1,500 degrees, and sold as concrete thickener. What the plant, from Aries Clean Technologies, will leave behind in our neighborhood is now the subject of fierce debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/nyregion/new-jersey-transit-commute.html
No Scrum for Seats. No Quiet-Car Brawls. Is This Really My Commute?
The pandemic has made New Jersey Transit unrecognizable.
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The eastbound train shuddered to a stop at the Maplewood station like a dog shaking off rain. In another time, dozens of the commute-hardened would have begun to board, heads down, shoulders angled, minds as focused on a particular seat as that of a rightful heir to a throne.
But on this early-spring, late-pandemic morning in New Jersey, only a scattered few climbed aboard, every one of us masked. All that grounded the moment in normality was the lateness of the train.
Environmental lawsuits filed against Secaucus business, Kearny property
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
Wilenta Feed in Secaucus has been sued by the state Attorney General s Office for alleged violations of the State’s Water Pollution Control Act. (NJ Attorney General s Office photo)EJA
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The state Attorney General’s Office has filed environmental lawsuits against a property owner in Kearny, a Secaucus business and seven other site across the state, authorities announced Monday.
Lawsuits were filed in seven of the nine cases, in the “overburdened communities” of Camden, Trenton, Kearny, Secaucus, Edison, Bridgeton and Egg Harbor City. The two additional cases are based in Butler and Vineland.
Four outstanding secondary school teachers to be honored at Princeton Commencement
Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
May 3, 2021 9:47 a.m.
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Princeton University will honor four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2021
on Sunday, May 16.
This year’s recipients of the Princeton Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching are Mina Armani of José Martí STEM Academy, Jametta Clarke of Lawrence High School, Christine Lim of Pennsauken High School and Andrew Teheran of East Side High School.
The teachers were selected for the award based on nominations from public and private schools around the state. They each will receive $5,000, as well as $3,000 for their school libraries.
Comments extended for Lower Passaic River April 29, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the public comment period for its proposed plan to address contaminated sediment in the upper nine miles of the Lower Passaic River Study Area to June 14, 2021.
The study area is for the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in Essex, Bergen, and Passaic Counties, New Jersey.
As EPA reported, the sediment in the Lower Passaic River is severely contaminated with dioxins/furans, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants from more than a century of industrial activity.
The proposed cleanup plan – supported by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – calls for using a combination of cleanup technologies including dredging approximately 387,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.