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Linden, NJ
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'Forever Chemicals' Found In NJ Waterways: See Full List By County 'Forever Chemicals' Found In NJ Waterways: See Full List By County 'Forever Chemicals' Found In NJ Waterways: See Full List By County
'Forever Chemicals' Found In NJ Waterways: See Full List By County So-called "forever chemicals" have been detected in rivers, lakes and streams across all 21 New Jersey counties, including the Hackensack, Passaic, Raritan and Delaware rivers, according to federal water testing records. The findings come as a new report released Tuesday, Oct. 13, by Environment America Research & Policy Center found PFAS chemicals at 83% of 1,602 locations tested nationwide between 2022 and 2024. PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are man-made chemicals that break down slowly and can build up in the environment and human body over time. Long-term…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hawthorne, NJ
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Heavy Fire Tears Through Hawthorne Tire Shop, Apartments Above Heavy Fire Tears Through Hawthorne Tire Shop, Apartments Above Heavy Fire Tears Through Hawthorne Tire Shop, Apartments Above
Heavy Fire Tears Through Hawthorne Tire Shop, Apartments Above Heavy flames tore through a Hawthorne tire shop with apartments above it Tuesday morning, Sept. 1, forcing firefighters out of the building as conditions worsened, officials said. The Hawthorne Fire Department was called to Hawthorne Tire Center at 136 Goffle Road around 7:23 a.m. for a possible fire, the department said. Firefighters arrived to find heavy black smoke coming from the auto body shop inside the 2½-story residential and commercial building, officials said. Crews initially tried to attack the fire from inside but were forced out by heavy fire conditions as other firefighte…

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by Cecilia Levine
White Plains, NY
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Chemistry Council Lobbyists Skirt Campaign Finance Laws: Rivertowns Activists Fight Back Chemistry Council Lobbyists Skirt Campaign Finance Laws: Rivertowns Activists Fight Back Chemistry Council Lobbyists Skirt Campaign Finance Laws: Rivertowns Activists Fight Back
Chemistry Council Lobbyists Skirt Campaign Finance Laws: Rivertowns Activists Fight Back In a David and Goliath standoff, 33 members of Beyond Plastics’s Lower Westchester Chapter, mostly Rivertowns residents, and 250 recycling and plastic reduction advocates met in Albany on May 7th to challenge industry lobbyists and encourage State legislators to Put People over Plastics. The group is fighting for passage of the NYS Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (PRRIA) even as industry lobbyists try their best to kill it. With a strong PRRIA, New York has an opportunity to address the monumental scourge of plastic pollution and lead the nation in reducing wasteful si…

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by Harriet Cheney
Albany, NY
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NY’s Mounting Garbage Crisis Nears Breaking Point As Seneca Meadows Landfill Faces Shutdown NY’s Mounting Garbage Crisis Nears Breaking Point As Seneca Meadows Landfill Faces Shutdown NY’s Mounting Garbage Crisis Nears Breaking Point As Seneca Meadows Landfill Faces Shutdown
NY’s Mounting Garbage Crisis Nears Breaking Point As Seneca Meadows Landfill Faces Shutdown New York’s waste crisis is rapidly escalating as landfills near capacity and the state’s largest—Seneca Meadows—faces a looming closure in 2025, raising alarm statewide. Seneca Meadows, located in the Finger Lakes, currently handles 30% of New York City’s trash. If its permit expires without renewal in 2025, the fallout could overwhelm the state's waste infrastructure. At the core of this crisis is the rise of plastic production and a faltering recycling system. With microplastics entering our food, water, air, and even our bodies—and with links to serious health risks including endocrine d…

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by Holly Malekian
National Interest
100+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across VA, New Study Says 100+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across VA, New Study Says 100+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across VA, New Study Says
100+ Toxic Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Across VA, New Study Says Drinking water in some Northeast states contains some of the highest levels of contaminants in the country, according to new data. The latest update to the Environmental Working Group's tap water database analyzed nearly 50,000 water systems nationwide between 2021 and 2023. The nonprofit identified 324 contaminants in drinking water, many at levels exceeding health-based guidelines. New York had the highest number in the region with 197 contaminants detected since 2013. New Jersey followed with 131, Pennsylvania with 123, and Connecticut with 120. Massachusetts recorde…

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by Chris Spiker
Newburgh, NY
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Contaminated Water In These NY Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway Contaminated Water In These NY Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway Contaminated Water In These NY Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway
Contaminated Water In These NY Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway A national study is measuring the effects of contaminated drinking water in nearly a dozen regions of the country including towns near a Hudson Valley National Guard base. The contaminants, known as PFAS, are also called “forever” chemicals because they stay in bodies for many years and have been linked to potentially serious health problems. In many cases, the source of PFAS in the groundwater is likely past use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) in the area. At airports and military bases, the foam is used as a fire suppressant to extinguish flammable liquid fires such as fuel fires. Th…

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by Jon Craig
Bristol, PA
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Contaminated Water In These PA Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway Contaminated Water In These PA Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway Contaminated Water In These PA Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway
Contaminated Water In These PA Towns Has Lasting Health Effects, National Study Underway A national study is measuring the effects of contaminated drinking water in 10 regions of the country including towns near military bases in Pennsylvania. The contaminants, known as PFAS, are also called “forever” chemicals because they stay in bodies for many years and have been linked to potentially serious health problems. In many cases, the source of PFAS in the groundwater is likely past use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) in the area. At airports and military bases, the foam is used as a fire suppressant to extinguish flammable liquid fires such as fuel fires. The studies are bei…

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by Jon Craig
Washington Township, NJ
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'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study 'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study 'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study
'Forever Chemicals' NJ Town's Water Center Of Major Study Researchers at Rutgers University will be studying the long-term health effects of chemicals in a Gloucester County town's contaminated water supply. The pollution came from a plastics plant near Paulsboro. Solvay Solexis and Arkema of West Deptford settled a class-action lawsuit to clean up the drinking water believed contaminated back to 1980. PFAS — which are "forever" chemicals — are man-made chemicals that have been used in industry and manufacturing of consumer products since the 1950s, Rutgers says. Paulsboro, a town of 6,000 on the Delaware River, recorded the highest rate of …

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by Jon Craig
Bergenfield, NJ
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Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic
Bergen's Tap Water Ranks 4th For Toxins In U.S., But Read This Before You Panic The toxins are ubiquitous. They could be harmful. But New Jersey isn't the only state flooded with them, experts say. A sample of Bergen County's tap water (taken from Bergenfield last August) contained the fourth highest concentration of an increasingly-common group of toxins in the U.S., according to a series of lab tests by the Environmental Working Group. The EWG for the first time found the chemicals known as "PFAS" in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, confirming that the number of Americans exposed to the chemicals by way of their drinking water "has been dramatically unde…

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by Cecilia Levine
Brentwood, NY
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Alert Issued After Contaminated Eel Discovered On South Shore Alert Issued After Contaminated Eel Discovered On South Shore Alert Issued After Contaminated Eel Discovered On South Shore
Alert Issued After Contaminated Eel Discovered On South Shore Eel lovers on Long Island are being warned to avoid eating any locally-caught due to the possibility of contamination from potential carcinogens commonly found in firefighting foam and nonstick coatings, said the Suffolk County Health Department. The department said it is advising individuals who consume American eel taken from south-shore tidal areas between the Carmans River near Yaphank, and Quantuck Creek near Quogue, of recent preliminary findings for elevated levels of had much higher levels of the chemicals called per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). "The preliminary…

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by Kathy Reakes