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A sampling of top news stories... Monday,  April 10, 2006

NJ Politics

• Bryant urged to pull out of budget talks NJ's GOP chairman calls for State Sen. Wayne
  R. Bryant, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, to remove himself from all budget
  talks after a report that the powerful Camden County Democrat is under criminal investigation,
  suspected of steering millions to his part-time employer, the University of Medicine and
  Dentistry of New Jersey Inquirer  Gannett
   Under probe, Bryant is no stranger to dissent

NJ Environment

• In defense of a ‘nasty neighbor’ As the Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. case—the
  longest  federal criminal environmental trial in U.S. history—goes to the jury, many of the
  Phillipsburg foundry’s neighbors wonder what the fuss is about Star-Ledger                 
  > Foundry-case jury set for closing act Express-Times
• Trouble on the mountain as cultures collide Shooting by DEP park police incites
  Ramapough tribe members Star-Ledger

PA Politics 

• From staff to lobbyist: The ties that bind Lobbyists are getting money for their
  ex-bosses — PA senators — and clients. A small circle of former staffers to Santorum
  and Specter act as the middlemen between clients and PA's congressional delegation
  in winning more than $100M in appropriations since 2001 Inquirer

PA Environment

• Toxic fallout More than half-a-billion pounds of toxic electronic products go into the
  U.S. waste stream every year, polluting the groundwater with lead, mercury, cadmium,
  chromium, plastics and flame retardants. Some states are getting tough with laws requiring
  recycling or proper disposal Daily News

• Mobil home park owner ordered to shut own sewage plant The DEP today ordered
  Roy Blair, owner of Blair’s Green Acres Mobile Home Park in Venango County, to properly
  shut down and decommission the park’s sewage treatment plant because of an alleged
  history of noncompliance PA-DEP

New York/Nation/World 

• Relieving the power grid, dirtying the air NY Times
• SC town sees nuclear plans as a boon, not threat NY Times

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