Three months after the EPA announced the price tag for cleaning up a Superfund site in Newark, the company that bought polluter Diamond Alkali went into bankruptcy and backed away from the cleanup, leaving public outrage in its wake.

State legislators, at a hearing in the New Jersey Meadowlands today, heard testimony from numerous environmental organizations–and from the state’s chemical industry–all who decried the actions by Maxus Energy and its owner, YPF, Argentina’s state-owned oil company. 


Dennis Hart, executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey, called the attempts by the corporations to avoid responsibility for the Superfund cleanup through bankruptcy a “blatant fraud.”


NJTV News‘ Brenda Flanagan has the story above.