The Nation - News from Sept. 20, 1989
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A Bayonne, N.J., bulk chemical storage facility operator was ordered to pay a fine of more than $3 million for continued dumping of oil-fouled waste water into New York Harbor, a penalty described as the highest ever levied in a private suit under the Clean Water Act. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan blamed “lethargic enforcement” of environmental regulations by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for allowing Powell Duffryn Terminals Inc. to pollute the Kill Van Kull for 11 years. Politan’s ruling arose from a suit by the Public Interest Research Group and Friends of the Earth.
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