In Newark, New Jersey, a toxic Superfund site faces growing climate threats. “It feels like we’ve been forgotten.'
Last year, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., a former Newark mayor, lamented how corporate greed had turned the natural resource into “New Jersey’s biggest crime scene.”
Communities saddled with “the worst kinds of sites don’t have the same muscle to fight for themselves,” said former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who served as EPA administrator from 2001 to 2003. The idea is to prevent an intense storm from kicking up the contaminated sludge, which locals liken to “black mayonnaise.”
Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, an environmental nonprofit, said more could have been done during President Barack Obama’s second term to address the effect of climate change on Superfund sites, particularly in New Jersey, and he believes it was a missed opportunity that the Trump administration has failed to seize on.
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