The New Jersey Appellate Division sides with Essex Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary of DOW Chemical, in a suit filed by the NJDEP in its effort to obtain both restoration and compensatory natural resource damages (“NRDs”) pursuant to the Spill Compensation and Control Act (“Spill Act”). The Court held that Essex Chemical did not need to
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Court Holds That NJDEP’s Informal Determination Not to Pursue PRP for Natural Resources Damages Cannot Later Be Reversed
By Gerard M. Giordano on
Posted in Remediation Oversight
A federal District Court in New Jersey recently ruled that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) waived its rights to pursue Natural Resource Damages (“NRDs”) as a result of a letter sent to the defendant indicating that NJDEP did not intend to pursue the defendant for NRDs. FMC Corp. v. American Cyanamid…
NJDEP Steps Up Efforts to Collect Natural Resource Damages in New Jersey
By Gerard M. Giordano on
Posted in Environmental Litigation
In the past couple of years, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) filed more than 100 lawsuits against companies seeking compensation for restoration of damages to natural resources caused by the companies’ discharge of chemicals to the environment. NJDEP also sought compensation for the public’s loss of use of those natural resources.
These…