Middlesex Water subsidiary gets rate hike approval Middlesex Water Company, a provider of water, wastewater and related services, has announced that its Delaware wholly owned subsidiary, Tidewater Utilities,
Inc., has received final approval from the Delaware Public Service Commission (PSC) for a 26.9% or $3.9M
overall increase in annual revenues. Tidewater is a water utility serving more than 30,000 residential and other customers in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware News release 2/27/07

Brownfield Management & Cleanup Requirements: Guidelines to Ensure Compliance. That's
the title of a 60-minute audio conference presented by Carl B. Everett, a partner with Saul Ewing LLP. The
program is designed to provide business teams with strategies for the effective management and cleanup of brownfields, and knowledge of how to ensure compliance with Federal and state requirements. Everett has
been practicing environmental law for more than 30 years, focusing on CERCLA, regulatory compliance, enforcement matters brought under federal and state environmental statutes, and tort litigation. He has served
as common counsel to PRP groups involved in CERCLA remediation projects and has lectured at professional
and business seminars on key environmental issues. He formerly was Senior Counsel in the Legal Department
of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. While with DuPont, he was involved in appeals of the ozone standard and the Ohio State Implementation Plan for Sulfur Dioxide under the Clean Air Act.  Program info/registration

PSEG names five new vice presidents Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) today announced the
election of five new vice presidents in four of its subsidiaries. The new senior leaders and their areas of responsibility are:
     - David J. Frank, vice president-supply chain management, PSEG Services Corporation, effective March 5. 
He will report to Elbert C. Simpson, president and chief operating officer of PSEG Services Corporation.
     - J. Brian Smith, vice president-communications and advertising, PSEG Services Corporation, effective
February 26. He will report to R. Edwin Selover, PSEG’s executive vice president and general counsel. 
     - Frank C. Ameo, vice president-engineering and operations support, PSEG Power, effective February 26. 
He will report to Frank Cassidy, president of PSEG Power.
     - Robert C. Braun, vice president-operations support, PSEG Nuclear, effective March 5.  He will report to William Levis, president of PSEG Nuclear and chief nuclear officer.
     - Raymond V. DePillo, vice president-power operations and trading, PSEG Energy Resources & Trade,
effective February 26, and reporting to Kevin J. Quinn, president of PSEG Energy Resources & Trade.
PSEG  2/26/07

PPL Corporation increases common stock dividend by 11 percent PPL Corporation on Friday
increased its common stock dividend by 11 percent. With this increase, the dividend will have risen
130 percent over the past five years. The company has increased its quarterly dividend from $0.275 to $0.305
per share, or from $1.10 to $1.22 per share on an annualized basis. The increased dividend is payable April 1, 2007, to shareowners of record as of March 9, 2007. This is the company’s 245th consecutive quarterly dividend and the sixth consecutive year that PPL has increased the dividend. PPL increased the dividend twice in 2005
and once in 2006, and the annualized dividend rate is up by 49 percent since the start of 2005. Based on the company’s closing stock price Thursday of $36.95 per share, Friday’s dividend increase would improve the
current yield on PPL common stock to 3.3 percent. PPL  2/23/07

Toll Brothers quarterly profit falls sharply Toll Brothers Inc. says the weak U.S. housing market
drove down its quarterly profit by 67 percent after write-downs for lower land values, and the luxury home
 builder lowered its forecast. The company said it could not yet see a rebound going into the industry's
spring selling season Reuters 2/22/07

Sims Group acquires United Recycling Industries The board of directors for the Sims Group, the
largest scrap recycling company in the world, has approved the acquisition of two electronics recycling
operations in North America. When the acquisitions are complete Sims notes that it will be the largest
global recycler of electronic equipment. The company estimates that it will be capable of handling around
25M computers, monitors, television sets, refrigerators, toner cartridges and other e-scrap a year. Sims’
Recycling Solutions Division will acquire United Recycling Industries, a Chicago-based electronics recycler.
The company provides a full range of services, including collection, refurbishment and re-sale of equipment
chip recovery, mechanical processing of monitors, recycling of e-waste and secondary smelting and refining
of high grade electronics. Completion of the acquisition is expected within the next two weeks. The second acquisition is expected to be completed within the next month. Sims has chosen not to announce that
company’s name as of yet. Recycling Today 2/21/07

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Sims Hugo Neu names new President of metals recycling in U.S.  Bob Kelman, who had most
recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of North East Operations, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Kelman will continue to be based in New York, where he also is responsible for management of the company's curbside recycling contract with New York City. He had nearly
20 years of industry experience with Hugo Neu Corporation prior to the merger of its recycling operations with
Sims Group in November, 2005  2/21/07     

$6 Million To Preserve Land In The Pinelands Conservation Resources Inc. (CRI) was recently awarded
the contract to administer the $6M Land Acquisition Program of the Pinelands Conservation Fund. The Pinelands Conservation Fund was set up by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission to help further protection of significant natural, cultural, historic, and agricultural resources within several distinct areas of the Pinelands. CRI will be identifying, screening, and recommending projects that meet the criteria developed by the Commission. For more information on the Pinelands Conservation Fund, click here.  2/19/07

In Pennsylvania, small businesses cut power bills by joining pools, switching suppliers When Mark Raitano, vice president of operations for Canonsburg-based Strive Enterprises Inc., found out Penn Power was preparing to raise electricity rates for his company's Greenville manufacturing plant, he decided to see whether
he could get cheaper rates from other suppliers. By joining a pool of small and midsize companies to switch electricity suppliers to Strategic Energy, Strive Enterprises got a new contract that's expected to save his
company about $3,000. Pittsburgh Business Times 2/19/07

PPG in wind energy venture PPG Industries Inc. agreed to form a 50-50 joint venture with Devold AMT AS
to make fabrics used for wind turbine blades. The joint venture company, to be known as PPG-Devold LLC, will manufacture stitched fabrics primarily for the North American wind energy market. PPG-Devold LLC will be located in PPG facilities in Shelby, N.C., adjacent to the PPG glass fiber plant. Pittsburgh-based PPG (NYSE:PPG), which makes coatings, chemicals and glass, did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Devold is based in Norway. Pittsburgh Business Times  2/16/07

Cozen-Wolf Block merger not happening  The management of Cozen O'Connor and Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen said Tuesday that the law firms will not merge. The proposed union of 500-lawyer Cozen and 300-lawyer Wolf Block would have been the largest-ever combination of Philadelphia law firms and would have
created the largest Philadelphia law office. "As with many merger discussions between major firms, business
and structural differences made completing a transaction difficult," the two firms said in a statement. Cozen
CEO Patrick O'Connor declined to elaborate. He said the firms used Brad Hildebrandt of Somerset, N.J.-based Hildebrandt International as a third party consultant for the talks. Philadelphia Business Journal 2/16/07

Covanta's China stake Covanta Holding of Fairfield, NJ,  is buying a stake in China's waste-to-energy market. The company yesterday said it has signed an agreement to purchase a 40 percent stake in Chongqing Sanfeng Environmental Industry, which operates and has minority stakes in two garbage incinerators in Fujian Province.
The company's stake is roughly $15 million. Star-Ledger 2/13/07

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Lawyer becomes only female executive at large Philadelphia law firm The Pepper Hamilton law firm
said Monday it has elected Nina Gussack head of its executive committee. As chairwoman, Gussack will be responsible for major strategic initiatives at the firm such as mergers and acquisitions. She replaces corporate rainmaker Barry M. Abelson, 60, who has chaired the committee since 1995 while continuing to practice law full time. Abelson will solely focus on his practice while also consulting with management.
Philadelphia Business Journal 2/12/07

Campbell announces expansion of N.J. headquarters Campbell Soup Co. said Wednesday that it will
spend up to $72M to expand its Camden, NJ, headquarters. The expansion includes a new 80,000-square-foot employee services building and the construction of a 110-acre office park to be anchored by Campbell  but also include other businesses Philadelphia Business Journal 2/8/07

Gas utility's earnings drop Earnings at New Jersey Resources Corp., the parent company of New Jersey Natural Gas, fell 18 percent in the first fiscal quarter, the company said this morning. Earnings fell to $28.1M,
or $1.01 per share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to $34.3M, or $1.23 per share, for the last three months of 2005, the company said. Revenues fell 36 percent to $741.5M in the period, down from $1.2B a year earlier. The company said the decrease in profits was due primarily to lower earnings at its wholesale energy services subsidiary, NJR Energy Services. It was partially offset by improved results at New Jersey Natural Gas. AP Press  2/7/07 

American Water, group, to research automatic meter reading American Water said Monday that a
team it leads has been awarded a grant of more than $900,000 to research automatic meter reading in the
water industry. The Voorhees, NJ, company, plus Cognyst Consulting LLC of Kinnelon, NJ, and Advantica Ltd.
of Loughborough, England, received the grant from the Awwa Research Foundation of Denver and the UK Water Industry Research. Awwa's goal is to help utilities and public health agencies work achieve clean and affordable drinking water for consumers. Philadelphia Business Journal 2/6/07

Saul Ewing partner named to firm's executive committee John F. Stoviak, Partner in Saul Ewing’s Litigation and Environmental departments, has been appointed to the firm’s Executive Committee.  The six-attorney committee serves as the Firm’s managing body. Mr. Stoviak is the outgoing Chair of the Litigation Department and a former two-term Managing Partner of the Saul Ewing.  He concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation and environmental cases.  With nearly 30 years of experience as a litigator, Mr. Stoviak has been the lead trial attorney on numerous cases, including a major business valuation case involving the nation’s third largest bankruptcy. Mr. Stoviak has handled a variety of significant environmental matters and cases, earning him the distinction as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers in Environmental Law” by Chambers USA.  Since 1993, he has been named to ‘The Best Lawyers in America” and was designated a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer,” beginning in 2004. Mr. Stoviak received his B.A. from Harvard University and earned his J.D. at Dickinson School of Law. He will serve a five-year term on the Executive Committee. Saul Ewing LLP is a full service law firm with 280 lawyers in eight offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and the District of Columbia.  The Firm serves businesses throughout the United States and internationally, including recognizable names in corporate America, exciting start-ups and an array of closely held and privately held companies, as well as nonprofits, governmental and educational entities.

Edward A. Hogan named among the Best Lawyers In America The Somerville, NJ law firm Norris McLaughlin  &  Marcus,  P.A.  is  pleased to announce that member Edward A. Hogan has been selected for inclusion in the Energy Law, Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law sections of
The Best Lawyers in America® 2007. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has
become regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 16,000 leading  attorneys throughout  the  country  cast more than a half million votes  on  the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are  not  required  or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. As head
of the Norris McLaughlin & Marcus Environmental Law Group, Hogan devotes his practice
to environmental law and  litigation, counseling manufacturers,  commercial  and  industrial  landlords and highly-regulated service businesses  in all aspects of environmental law and litigation. He has  written and co-authored many articles and alerts on the subject of environmental  law. He has also presented seminars and presentations on the subject since 1983. Hogan  has served as Chairman of the Environmental Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey OSHA & Business Communication Alliance, the Technical  Regulations Advisory Coalition, and the Environmental Committees of the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, the Ironbound Business Association, and the New Jersey Business and Industry Association. Hogan  earned his J.D. from Georgetown University, his M.F.S. from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and his B.S. from Saint Peter’s College.

 Science as life Zachary D. Lewis says he is one of only a handful of black environmental scientists in New Jersey, and he'd like that to change. "Part of our goal . . . is to continue to educate our young people and encourage them," said Lewis, president of Brilliant Lewis Environmental Services LLC, headquartered in Lakewood. Since receiving an environmental science degree from Stockton State College in 1983, Lewis has worked in a number of environmental and engineering firms in NJ. He and Philip I. Brilliant co-founded Brilliant Lewis Environmental Services, an environ-mental consulting firm, in January 2006, Lewis said. The company has offices in Lakewood, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., Lewis said. Its services include residential underground storage tank work and municipal consulting.
 Asbury Park Press 2/4/07 

PPL Corporation Reports Record Earnings for 2006 PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) today reported a 27 percent increase in 2006 earnings per share compared with 2005. PPL’s reported 2006 earnings were a record $2.25 per share compared with $1.77 per share in 2005.  Excluding unusual items, PPL’s earnings from ongoing operations for 2006 also were a company record, at $2.22 per share, or 7 percent higher than the $2.08 per share from ongoing operations in 2005. Major factors contributing to the earnings increase in 2006 were higher realized wholesale energy margins in PPL’s domestic supply business, reflecting increased contract prices and improved performance of the company’s energy marketing operations, and stronger results from  PPL’s electricity delivery companies in the United Kingdom and Latin America. PPL Corporation is a global energy company based in Allentown, Pa., that delivers electricity and natural gas to more than 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania.
Press Release 2/1/07