With NJ’s Tough New Environmental Justice Law in Place, Why Is Newark in Line for Another Power Plant?

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Gov. Murphy says it’s to protect the city from sewage in the event of a superstorm. But activists in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood say enough is enough.

NEWARK, N.J.—A super-sized swath of factories, warehouses and diesel trucks clog the Ironbound neighborhood, along with the state’s largest trash incinerator, the biggest sewage treatment plant, an animal carcass rendering facility, several power plants and the contaminated remains of an Agent Orange factory that is still a Superfund site. 

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