POU DEMANDS ANSWERS AFTER 5,500-GALLON DATA CENTER DIESEL SPILL

Washington, Oct. 5 -- Congresswoman Nellie Pou issued the following press release:

PATERSON, NJ - Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ-09) is seeking answers from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) following a massive diesel fuel spill at an Equinix data center in Secaucus that contaminated local waterways in her district. Pou called for a full accounting of the roughly 5,500-gallon spill, its environmental impact, and the safeguards being put in place to prevent another data center disaster. "This spill in the Ninth District was the largest data center fuel spill on record in our state. The scale of this disaster demands a full accounting. We need to understand how it happened, ensure the cleanup is complete, and put ...