New Jersey group sues to overturn a settlement for one of the nation’s worst toxic waste dumps

Save Barnegat Bay and the township of Toms River claim the toxic waste settlement with chemical company BASF is woefully inadequate.

Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting.

Save Barnegat Bay and the township of Toms River...