Residents in Jersey City, N.J., have filed a lawsuit against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania that alleges the companies dumped and failed to clean up hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods. The lawsuit claims that Honeywell and PPG disposed of more than one million tons of chromium in Jersey City beginning in the early 1900s... The class action lawsuit seeks punitive damages, along with medical monitoring, for residents and property owners in the wake of a federal study showing elevated levels of cancer in some areas near the waste sites, according to residents’ attorneys.