New Jersey Sues Ford For Hazardous Substance Dumping At Former Landfill

(June 29, 2022, 2:41 PM EDT) -- HACKENSACK, N.J. — New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, its commissioner and the administrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (collectively DEP) on June 16 sued Ford Motor Co. in state court for allegedly discharging paint sludge and other toxic substances at a former mining site and current state park that the company used as a landfill for one of its manufacturing sites in the 1960s but never adequately cleaned up or fully disclosed....