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Group says New Jersey toxic waste dumping caused $1B in harm, calls settlement inadequate

Dec. 18, 2024 04:25 AM EST

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the...

$73.5M beach replenishment project starts in January at Jersey Shore

Dec. 13, 2024 15:09 PM EST

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — A $73.5 million beach replenishment project will kick off at the Jersey Shore next month. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that work to widen beaches in Ocean County will begin in January, the vanguard of a project that will pump 2.1...