[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey legislator call for stronger cleanup oversight

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials call rules lax on site cleanups


By ALEX NUSSBAUM
Bergen Record (NJ)
June 2, 2006

Polluters and developers have too much control over toxic waste 
cleanups, state lawmakers warned on Thursday.

Leaders of the Assembly's environment and judiciary committees, meeting 
in a joint session in Trenton, said the state needs to wrest some of the 
control it had surrendered to polluters. Legislators are concerned that 
those responsible for contaminating a site get to decide how they will 
clean it up and that much of the testing of those sites is done by 
consultants hired by property owners.

"A consultant working for a producer of waste is going to feel pressure 
to provide answers that their client wants," said Assemblyman Robert 
Gordon, D-Fair Lawn.

Jersey City Democrat Louis Manzo said contractors were manipulating 
pollution tests on contaminated properties and urged the state 
Department of Environmental Protection to take a closer look at the 
private engineers entrusted to declare a site safe.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTQyNzAwJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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