There is little doubt that business will have to think twice before expanding or locating a facility in New Jersey.
We have 1,000 products. If every state has different reporting requirements, we’d have to produce 50,000 different [Material Safety Data Sheets].
Labeling all pipes and containers could cost the chemical industry $100 million a year.
This is probably the single most anti-business bill to become law in New Jersey in recent years. The governor’s decision to sign it will cause serious doubts among people in business about the state’s commitment to encouraging growth and jobs.
[The law will be] unworkable, unmanageable, unadministratable, unenforceable and extraordinarily costly.
No jobs have left the city because of the toxic-disclosure law…. But whatever the figures for a statewide right-to-know law, it is hard conceive of them outstripping the astronomical costs—in tarnished corporate images, in legal expenses and in compensating and caring for sick employees—that await businesses without formal, accepted mechanism to warn workers about the health risks they face on the job.
We think this bill is definitely going to cost jobs in New Jersey. Why come into New Jersey and why expand when you have that much additional cost?
We cannot go on adding regulations on the backs of industries in this state.
[The] procedures required are too costly and non-productive to industry, making New Jersey a less competitive location for manufacturing.
[The bill would be] detrimental to business and the citizens of the state in that it will curtail expansion of existing industry and jobs and it will discourage the attraction of new industry.
