More than half a million single family homes and condos in New Jersey are sitting in high-risk zip codes, meaning at least one environmental factor is at hazardous levels, according to new research.
A company blamed for lead pollution at a site along the Raritan Bay says in a lawsuit it is being unfairly targeted and that others should share the cost of the cleanup.
For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that the recent superstorm didn't cause significant problems at any of the 247 toxic waste sites it's monitoring in New York and New Jersey.
Federal officials say a six-acre plot in northern New Jersey that was once contaminated with radioactive thorium has been officially removed from the nation's Superfund list.