NJ Polluted

Corporations get away with murder in America. Think that’s just bleeding heart liberal socialist hysteria? Well, watch “Mann v. Ford,” the shocking new documentary now airing on HBO, and then we’ll talk.
The film chronicles the decades’ long plight of the Ramapough Mountain Indians fight against the Ford Motor Company. Living in the hills and forests of northern New Jersey, less than 40 miles from midtown Manhattan,for hundreds of years, the close knit, economically disadvantaged community’s way of life has been threatened since the late 1960s, when Ford, which had a plant in nearby Mahwah, bought their land and began dumping toxic waste in the woods and abandoned iron mines surrounding their homes.
In the 1980s, the Ramapough’s homeland was placed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of federally monitored Superfund sites – and supposedly cleaned up by Ford. However, thousands of tons of toxic waste were left behind. Where was the EPA? That question is answered by one of the newspaper reporters who broke the story with two choices. Corruption or incompetence. No one will ever know, and it really doesn’t matter. But your ire will certainly rage as you watch the residents suffer a range of mysterious ailments, including deadly cancers, skin rashes and high rates of miscarriage. And you’ll ask–along with the community and lawyers–where are all the old people? There are few people in Upper Ringwood who make it past 60.
In 2006 the residents filed a class action lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from Ford as compensation for their suffering. Ford denied all responsibility for the illnesses devastating the community and claimed its flawed cleanup had fully complied with all EPA rules. Taken from here.