By Noah Botwinick | Published January 24, 2023 | Posted in Environmental Litigation | Tagged Tags: Cleanup of pfas, How you you eliminate PFAS, Is PFAS harmful, PFAS Can PFAS hurt you, What is pfas Ilness associated with, Which companies created pfas | Comments Off on Court Affirms DEP Direct Oversight of Remediation Efforts of PFAS Polluting Plant
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This week, in In re Dep’t of Envtl. Prot. Direct Oversight Determination, No. A-0635-20, 2023 WL-125229 (App. Div. Jan. 9, 2023), New Jersey’s Appellate Division affirmed a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) determination that a manufacturing plant was subject to direct oversight of its remediation of discharged hazardous substances. In 2019, the DEP issued Read More
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