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More than 40% of Americans 135 million people live in areas with unhealthy levels of pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual assessment of air quality across the nation.
New Jersey is no outlier. Eight of its 21 counties were slapped with “F’’ grades for the high number of days when they violated the national air quality standard for ground-level ozone, a pollutant that forms on hot summer days that can cause respiratory problems and other ailments for young children, the elderly, and those with asthma.
The eight counties are Bergen, Camden, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, and Ocean.
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A warehouse in Jeannette where Patriot Shield stored and processed hemp, photographed on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.
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A lawsuit filed by a Jeannette packaging company seeking damages for claiming its items were contaminated by a hemp drying facility has been settled.
Meanwhile, a $29,000 judgment against Patriot Shield Pennsylvania was filed by the state Department of Environmental Protection for air control violations related to the hemp drying process, according to court records.
No details are publicly available about the settlement. Attorney Lawrence Kerr, who represented FC Meyer Packaging, filed a document Friday requesting the civil matter be discontinued.
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Keyport says groundwater samples taken at the 55 Walnut Street property show higher-than-accepted levels of benzene, aluminum, arsenic, manganese and lead. (Shutterstock)
KEYPORT, NJ The town of Keyport is suing the landowners on which a former landfill sits, saying that even though the landfill has been closed for 42 years, it continues to leak solid waste and heavy metals into Raritan Bay.
Keyport filed the lawsuit Jan. 28 against Bay Ridge Realty Corporation, a New York City-based company that owns the land. The former landfill is located at 55 Walnut Street in Keyport; it is a 50-acre industrial site that stopped being used as a landfill in 1979.
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