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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Milgram</p>           TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram said Thursday that a recent settlement will help clean up chromium-tainted sites in Hudson County.<br /><br />PPG Industries will help finance the cleanup at and around a site it owned from 1954-63. Milgram says the company sold waste products containing hexavelent chromium to contractors who lined sewer pipes with them.<br /><br />\"This is a major settlement, and is the culmination of years of intense investigative work and litigation on behalf of our citizens and our environment,\" Milgram said.<br /><br />At one time, three of the country's six chromium chemical production plants were located in Hudson County. The lawsuit -- filed in 2005 against PPG, Honeywell International and Occidental Chemical -- alleged toxic chromate waste has lingered throughout the county and has created serious environmental and public health concerns.<br /><br />The goal of the settlement is to remediate soil and sources of chromium contamination at 14 sites within five years.<br /><br />Milgram has been successful in getting other companies (like <a href=\"http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/215647-exxon-responsible-for-loss-of-resources-n.j.-court-finds\" class=\"copy\">Exxon </a> and the <a href=\"http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/218360-landfill-cleanup-will-cost-defendants-nearly-100-mil\" class=\"copy\">Combe Fill South Landfill</a> ) to pay the costs of other environmental clean-ups.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach John O'Brien by e-mail at john@legalnewsline.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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