New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette, acting as the state’s natural resource trustee, issued Administrative Order 2023-08 on March 14, 2023, which modernizes guidance on,...more
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) released on June 6 proposed new rules that would implement parts of the Environmental Justice Law, N.J.S.A. 13:1D-157, requiring certain industrial facilities to...more
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) took steps on April 24, 2020, to suspend the application of certain New Jersey Site Remediation Program (SRP) compliance deadlines. This was in response to...more
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court issued last week two important decisions, one regarding the federal Superfund law and the other concerning the Clean Water Act....more
New Jersey state officials are putting businesses on notice that Natural Resource Damage (“NRD”) lawsuits and other enforcement actions are coming down the pipeline. On Wednesday, August 1, 2018, Governor Phil Murphy’s...more
Following principles of strict statutory construction and refusing to “unsettle a decades-long understanding in this State,” on January 26, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that there is no statute of...more
A bill (A-3880/S-444) recently introduced in both houses of the New Jersey legislature would prevent companies and private individuals from exercising their existing contribution rights under New Jersey’s Spill Act to recover...more
Effective December 30, 2013, the EPA acted to amend the standards and practices for conducting all appropriate inquiries (“AAI”) to embrace an update to ASTM International standards, and to expressly bring vapor issues to the...more
This is an important legal development for any company that is cleaning up an old contaminated site in New Jersey and requires more time to complete the remedial investigation.
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The New Jersey Appellate Division just ruled that the general six-year statute of limitations for property damage claims applies to a private claim for contribution brought under the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control...more