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Article: Are we losing pollution war?
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- December 14, 2008
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SCOTT FALLON and JAMES M. O'NEILL, STAFF WRITERS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-14-2008
Are we losing pollution war? -- N.J. struggles to clear its skies of toxic industrial chemicals
By SCOTT FALLON and JAMES M. O'NEILL, STAFF WRITERS
Date: 12-14-2008, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
More than 50 North Jersey companies pump half a million pounds of toxic chemicals into the sky every year, adding to the region's poor air quality, which continually fails federal standards, an analysis of federal data by The Record shows.
The state has tried to rein in some egregious polluters, fining dozens of companies in Bergen and Passaic counties more than $5 million for numerous violations of ...