The township is home to the Dupont Corporation Chamber Works, a facility covering that was listed No. 4 on the Mother Jones top 20 polluters of 2010, legally discharging over of toxic chemicals into New Jersey and Delaware River waterways.Butler, Kiera. "America's Top 10 Most-Polluted Waterways", Mother Jones, April 2, 2012. Accessed October 26, 2017. " In 2016, the township initiated a $1.1 billion lawsuit against the corporation, accusing it of divesting the Chambers Works to Chemours without first remediating the property as required by law to address the of pollutants emitted into the soil and water in the century that the facility has been in operation.Milo, Paul. "Small N.J. town files $1.1 billion lawsuit against DuPont", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 21, 2016. "A lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that chemical giant DuPont spun off a local factory complex in an attempt to avoid more than $1 billion needed to clean up nearly a century's worth of pollution. Chambers Works, where a chemical used in the non-stick coating Teflon was made, released over 100 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the water and ground from the late 19th century until the early 1970s, affecting residential areas as far as two miles away, according to the suit filed on behalf of Carneys Point in Salem County."
