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Online Stock Market Trading If a homeowner on Elizabeth Avenue in Rahway wanted to build an addition, the resident would have to notify neighbors, in case any of them wanted to object. But when the Merck pharmaceutical corporation recently asked the state for permission to emit another 103 tons of soot per year from its facility on the same street, it faced no such requirement.

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Stock Investing Course Leon Shanks, a telephone technician who lives across the street from Merck's smokestacks, said he, for one, would have liked to know about the company's request before it was granted last month.

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Stock Investing Game Gov. James E. McGreevey's administration has long acknowledged that the rules governing public disclosure of new air pollution requests are loose compared with other environmental requirements, such as applications to fill in wetlands. The administration has been working for several months on a new set of rules regarding air permits.

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Stock Market News Merck's request is one of many such applications the state receives each year. Other recent requests to increase pollution have come from Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, Cogen Technologies in Linden and Hercules Enterprises in Hillsborough.

Stock Investing Basics The Merck application, like the other requests for major new air permits, is posted on the Department of Environmental Protection's Web site. The state also publishes notices about such requests in newspapers and sends them to local mayors and environmental commissions.

Stock Investing Software Merck officials said their project would lower emissions of nitrogen dioxide so much that the increase in soot is not something local residents should worry about. In any case, they said, they voluntarily told local residents about the project in various venues, including meetings with a panel of community members.

Stock Market Trading As to whether the state should require companies to notify all local residents about major new air pollution requests, Merck spokesman Chris Loder said: "We can only comment on what we've done. We're not going to speculate on what the state's going to do."

Stock Investing For Dummy Michael Egenton, a lobbyist with the state Business and Industry Association, said more public notification would slow down air permitting and hinder the state's effort to attract and keep industry.

Stock Market Crash "Residents have every right, because it's their community, to be concerned about what's coming," Egenton said. "My concern, though, is does it slow the process down?"

Stock Investing Tip Of a dozen residents in the Rahway neighborhood surveyed, none had heard that Merck applied to increase its pollution this fall, except one, who worked for the company. The state received no public comments on the proposal during the 30-day public comment period, which ended in mid-September. The company got its permit shortly afterward.

Stock Market Chart The neighborhood around Merck, like those around many of the state's major industrial facilities, is working class. Also nearby are a General Motors plant and a major incinerator. Residents said they are worried about air pollution, but most said other concerns were more pressing, such as their careers and their families.

Online Stock Investing "They emit a lot of weird stuff, but we've got stuff from a refinery coming over from Staten Island," said Ida Northcott, 34, as her 3-year-old son played in the yard. "It just adds to the mix."

Stock Market Crash Of Northcott had not heard about Merck's application, but said she probably would not have opposed it. "I'm not that much of an activist," she said.

Stock Investing For Beginner Air pollution applications are frequently as thick as a phone book, and are written in technical language that is difficult to decipher. Even identifying the relevant Merck facility was no easy task, because the mailing address under which it is listed does not appear on town maps.

Finance Journal Personal Several environmentalists said they did not know where to find pending air permit applications, and even if they had, they would not have the time to figure out which ones were important.

Stock Market Report "The notification process is really in the end a process where you have to be on the lookout for these things," said Ashok Gupta, a senior energy economist at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Finance Investing Stock Market Valerie Caffee of the Work-Environment Council, an organized labor and environmental group, said she had been lobbying the McGreevey administration since shortly after the governor was elected to make air permit applications more accessible and more understandable to the public.

Wall Street Journal Com Caffee is the chair of the state's Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which recently produced a report asking the DEP to improve public notification.

Stock Market Investing Advice "Those public notices are often printed in rather small type and can be easily overlooked," Caffee said.

Street Trader Wall Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell said he was working on improving the notification system.

Indian Stock Market "What we envision is a registration process, in which residents can provide notice to us that if there's any future change in the facility they want to receive full notice and an opportunity to comment. Designing that into our current information infrastructure is going to take some time," he said.

Stock Investing Advice Alexander Lane
Star-Ledger - 10/28/2003

Topic: Air Pollution

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