Old gunpowder plant to become port on Delaware River

Greenwich Mayor George Shivery outside DuPont plant in 2011- Tim Hawk photo
A long-shuttered gunpowder factory along the Delaware River is set to become a privately owned port in a major deal announced by (New Jersey) officials on Friday
afternoon, Michelle Caffrey reports in SJ Times.
 
"State Sen. President Steve Sweeney led a press conference in Greenwich Township to announce the sale of the township’s former DuPont Repauno plant to Fortress Investment Group, which aims to turn the dormant 1,800-acre property into a port-related industrial park for imports and exports.  "
 
"This has been a very long journey," Sweeney said about the more than nine years of marketing, searching and negotiating of the sale of the plant, a brownfield site that’s been the subject of environmental remediation by state and federal agencies.
 
"We finally got to the place we wondered at times if we would," said Greenwich Mayor George Shivery. "This is a great day for Gibbstown … We’re talking about jobs, talking about ratables and we’re talking about bringing Gibbstown back to the level it was 20 years ago."
 
Friday’s announcement capped off years of discussion about what the plant could become in its next life, with talk of a port being considered since at least 2011.

Unlike the Port of Paulsboro — another project long in the works that has gained traction recently as its first tenant was announced last fall — the entire port will be privately owned by Fortress, a New-York based investment group that invests in and operates ports
 
 

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NJ Supreme Court lets Fenimore Landfill ruling stand

"The New Jersey Supreme Court is letting an appeals court decision stand that rescinded the state’s 2013 takeover of the troubled Fenimore landfill in Roxbury, where rotten egg-like smells were spreading for miles throughout town, " Ben Horowitz reports for NJ.com

"In a brief order issued Monday, the state Supreme Court declined to hear the state Department of Environmental Protection’s appeal of the lower court decision.

Although the long-term future of the landfill is unclear and will likely be resolved through further court action, a DEP spokesman said today that the agency’s work to clean up the facility "is still going on" and will continue unless the agency is specifically told to stop."

"The DEP has capped the landfill and just a week ago, it installed a new oxidizer to "burn off" the hydrogen sulfide gas that has been the subject of odor and health complaints, said spokesman Bob Considine."

See the full story at: Ruling invalidating takeover of Fenimore landfill stands | NJ.com

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Enviro groups react to vote on NJ Gov's Pinelands pick

When the New Jersey Senate, on a one-vote margin Monday, approved Governor Chris Christie’s nomination of Robert Barr to serve on the Pinelands Commission, many in the gallery that was packed with preservation advocates erupted with groans and cries of protest.

Representatives of the NJ Sierra Club, Environment New Jersey and Clean Water Action sounded off minutes after the vote.

In the video above, Jeff Tittel, Doug O’Malley and Dave Pringle express their frustration over what they saw as political pressure tactics exerted by GOP Governor Christie and Democrat Senate President Steve Sweeney.

They also voiced fears that Mr. Barr’s appointment could lead to future Commission decisions to permit a natural gas pipeline and other developments that would undermine Pinelands protections.

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Michael C. Gross joins Post & Schell’s enviro practice

Post & Schell announces that Michael C. Gross has joined the firm in its Environmental Practice Group, resident in the Firm’s Philadelphia Office.
Mr. Gross, formerly a partner at the  boutique environmental law firm Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP where he began his legal career, represents clients in a wide array of environmental matters including: the facilitation of environmental due diligence; contractual allocation of environmental risks and liabilities; brownfields redevelopment; site remediation; regulatory compliance; responding to environmental enforcement actions; and environmental insurance.

His national client base includes industrial entities, commercial and residential real estate developers, energy producers, and municipalities. Mr. Gross has specialized brownfields redevelopment experience in the Lehigh Valley, having represented multiple purchasers of former Bethlehem Steel Site parcels within the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park.

Established in 2014, Post & Schell’s Environmental Practice Group has grown to five attorneys focused on sophisticated, transaction-oriented and regulatory compliance environmental counseling across a wide range of transactional, regulatory and litigation matters. The Group’s national client base comes from industries with complex regulatory schemes and significant potential liabilities that benefit from a practical, business-oriented approach to environmental issues. Representative clients include: private equity funds, real estate developers, investors and managers, municipalities, as well as energy, chemical, health care, and manufacturing companies.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Gross was a senior legislative aide on Capitol Hill and recently served on a committee advising Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on environmental policy issues during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign. He also served on former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell’s environmental policy transition team, and the Vapor Intrusion Legal Task Group of ASTM International. The latter included crafting a uniform standard for assessing vapor intrusion risks in commercial real estate transactions. These experiences provide him with a unique perspective to counsel clients in regulatory compliance matters, representing clients before government agencies in environmental permitting and enforcement matters. Since 2013, he has been listed inPennsylvania Super Lawyers/Philadelphia Magazine for environmental law and was selected as a “Rising Star” by the same publication in environmental law in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Mr. Gross is a 2000 graduate of Temple University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Temple Environmental Law & Technology Journal. He also holds an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University, and B.A. from Colorado College.
He serves as Vice Chair of the Lower Merion Township Environmental Advisory Council, and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance. He and his wife, the Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of a leading national security services provider, live with their two children in Merion, PA.
Post & Schell has fully staffed offices in Washington, D.C., Princeton, NJ, and Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Allentown, Pa. 

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