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New Jersey sues three companies for discharging and delaying cleanup of highly toxic dioxin in the lower Passaic river [USA]
...New Jersey filed suit against Occidental Chemical Corporation, Maxus Energy Corporation and Tierra Solutions, Inc. for the intentional discharge of dioxin - an extremely dangerous, cancer-causing chemical - and other contaminants into the Passaic River. New Jersey also directed the three companies to pay the state $2.3 million to develop a plan to dredge contaminated sediments...Occidental Chemical Corporation and its predecessors (Diamond Shamrock Chemical Company) and others intentionally discharged...pesticides and chemicals...at the Diamond Alkali site...in Newark, New Jersey.