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Environmental advocates rally in West Milford to protest gas compressor project


Environmental advocates rally in West Milford to protest gas compressor project
David M. Zimmer, NorthJersey.com
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People gather in New Milford on Saturday April 24, 2021 to protest the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company and the two proposed gas compressors along their pipeline. One would be in Wantage and one in New Milford.
WEST MILFORD Acrimony toward the proposed construction of a new natural gas compression station in the state s protected Northern Highlands brought a crowd of environmental advocates to a rarely occupied micro-park Saturday afternoon.
The rally at the intersection of Greenwood Lake Turnpike and East Shore Road was a protest of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company s pending East 300 Upgrade Project. Designed to meet the demand for ConEdison connections in Westchester County, New York, the project includes two compressor station upgrades in Wantage and Susquehanna County, ....

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Keyport Sues, Says Former Landfill Is Polluting Raritan Bay


UpdatedWed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:09 pm ET
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Keyport says groundwater samples taken at the 55 Walnut Street property show higher-than-accepted levels of benzene, aluminum, arsenic, manganese and lead. (Shutterstock)
KEYPORT, NJ The town of Keyport is suing the landowners on which a former landfill sits, saying that even though the landfill has been closed for 42 years, it continues to leak solid waste and heavy metals into Raritan Bay.
Keyport filed the lawsuit Jan. 28 against Bay Ridge Realty Corporation, a New York City-based company that owns the land. The former landfill is located at 55 Walnut Street in Keyport; it is a 50-acre industrial site that stopped being used as a landfill in 1979. ....

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