Environment Due to past industrial activity, New Jersey has more Superfund toxic waste sites than any other state in the union despite its small geographic size. By 2024, only 35 of New Jersey's Superfund sites (out of about 150 that have been on the EPA's list since the Superfund law was passed in 1980) have been cleaned up.Superfund: National Priorities List (NPL) on the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Environment Due to past industrial activity, New Jersey has more Superfund toxic waste sites than any other state in the union despite its small geographic size. By 2024, only 35 of New Jersey's Superfund sites (out of about 150 .that have been on the EPA's list since the Superfund law was passed in 1980) have been cleaned upSuperfund: National Priorities List (NPL) on the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).