2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 11 Sep 2007 00:02:06 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Cornell Dubilier Electronics, South Plainfield, NJ
 
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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