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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dana Says Gov't Shares Blame for Site

Associated Press
Forbes
September 10, 2007 09.10.07, 5:52 PM ET
	
WASHINGTON - Dana Corp. wants the U.S. government to pick up some of the 
$250 million cost of cleaning up a toxic factory site in South 
Plainfield, N.J., arguing the Defense Department oversaw the factory 
during World War II, when much of the contamination occurred.

In papers filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, the 
auto-parts company asked a judge to reject the government's 
environmental-damage claims against it. It said most of the $300 million 
in cleanup costs the government is seeking are related to the South 
Plainfield site, which the Environmental Protection Agency lists among 
the country's most hazardous.

The government hasn't accused Dana of contaminating the site - the 
actual contamination, according to court papers, occurred after Dana 
stopped manufacturing at the site in 1929 and leased it to Cornell 
Dubilier Electronics Inc.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/10/ap4102245.html

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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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