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With thousands of New Jersey children sickening from lead poisoning every year, some university scientists are zeroing in not only on corroded pipes and industrial dumps, but on a substance called “biosolids,” or “sewage sludge”.

After decades of neglect, New Jersey's notoriously polluted Passaic River is finally targeted for a $1.4 billion cleanup – one of the most expensive efforts in the federal Superfund program’s 36-year history.

Hurricane season is always a threat. But the nor’easter of early October 2015 was unlike any other.

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In 1943, a vast field in the New Jersey town of Middlesex was part of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program that created the atomic bomb. It took the federal government nearly 40 years more to discover that radioactive material had been left behind -- and for the land to be targeted for cleanup.