New Jersey Advances EJ Enforcement Actions Amid Trump Rollback

New Jersey is touting its ongoing environmental justice (EJ) enforcement work, with the state launching five suits against gasoline station contamination in EJ neighborhoods and settling two older related suits, even as the Trump EPA has stopped all EJ work as part of the administration’s broader attacks on diversity initiatives. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Matthew Platkin (D) and Division of Law acting director Michael Walters announced the new suits...