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AG Platkin and DEP Commissioner LaTourette Announce Filing of Four New Environmental Justice Enforcement Actions

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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced one environmental justice (EJ) settlement as well as the filing of four lawsuits to enforce environmental law in and around communities considered overburdened under New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law.