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

By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press
Published: December 18, 2024, 7:39am

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 firm that did the polluting.

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