By Ben Dziobek and Sunni Vargas
Families across New Jersey are paying the price for climate disasters that corporate polluters created, and it’s only getting more expensive.
The more frequent and severe storms that flood our homes and businesses, the extreme heat that sends seniors to the emergency room, and the unhealthy air quality that triggers childhood asthma attacks are costing families incalculable sums of money.
They deserve compensation. And now there’s legislation that would do just that.
The Climate Superfund Act would require our state’s biggest polluters to finally pay for the damages they created so that working families no longer have to.
This landmark legislation is modeled on the federal Superfund program, which has successfully held toxic polluters accountable for de