2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:08:00 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Associated Mechanical Devices, Hillside, New Jersey
 
Shutdown of Hillside light manufacturing shop shows economic toll

By Mark DiIonno
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
October 12, 2009

Manufacturing's slow death march continues in New Jersey.

There are no more auto plants, as Ford and GM closed Edison and Linden this decade. Durable home goods, made by companies like Frigidaire and GE are long gone.

From December of 2007 until July of this year, another 30,300 manufacturing jobs have been lost in New Jersey.

Eighty of those belonged to Ernie Camuso.

...

Environmental remediation: It will cost Camuso about $100,000 to clean up underground contamination to sell his building to satisfy state Department of Environmental Protection regulations, even though his business did not cause the problem. The process is bound with red tape, making it difficult for him to sell.

...

For the entire column, see
http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/10/nj_taxes_economic_downturn_con.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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