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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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