In Morristown Associates v. Grant Oil Co., an eagerly anticipated ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified a critically important and much debated issue as to whether private cost recovery claims under the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control …
The following are summaries of selected environmental decisions from 2012 focusingon New Jersey decisions, with some cases addressing other issues on a federal level.
New Jersey Spill Act
In NJDEP v. Dimant, 212 N.J. 153 (2012) the New Jersey Supreme …
On January 21, 2014 Governor Christie signed S-3075 which authorizes the NJDEP to extend the statutory deadline for submission of Remedial Investigations (RI) of pre-1999 discharges for two years to avoid the potential Direct Oversight by NJDEP. The legislation was…