Paulsboro resident Natasha Lavard  fears that the Exxon settlement will leave her town with a polluted site and insufficient cleanup funds

Environmentalists have been pounding hard for
weeks on NJ Gov Chris Christie’s settlement with Exxon/Mobil over the costs of
environmental resource damages incurred over decades of pollution at the Bayway
Refinery in Linden and other petroleum installations in northern New Jersey.

The Christie settlement is for only a fraction of what the state DEP was
seeking during years of negotiations with the energy giant under previous
governors.

Recently it was discovered that the state had lumped into the settlement
(currently under a judge’s review) other contaminated sites, including a former
Exxon site in Paulsboro.

BlueJersey covered a protest yesterday over Paulsboro’s inclusion in
the pending settlement and posted six videos with environmentalists and local
residents. You can view them here


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