New Jersey Agency Bid To Preserve Natural Resource Damages Claim Fails

Mealey's ( October 28, 2022, 10:49 AM EDT) -- HACKENSACK, N.J. — A New Jersey Superior Court judge has rejected a motion by a state environmental agency to revisit her August 2022 judgment dismissing a dispute over the discharge of hazardous substances and pollutants at a chemical manufacturing facility, on grounds that the case is foreclosed by the terms of a 2013 consent decree....