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                                        Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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 NJ Politics 

• Property tax reforms draw quick attacks The first batch of bills to emerge from the
  Legislature's push for property tax reform is immediately attacked by labor leaders saying
  the measures go too far in trimming benefits and by some lawmakers who said they fall
  short of the needed reforms Star-Ledger
  >Tax cut for tenants is part of relief plan Corzine wants to  "significantly" increase
  tax relief for renters AP Press Star-Ledger           

• Democrats link NJ GOP chairman to lobbying fraud Burlington Democratic chairman
  says funds from fraudulent bills paid by the county Bridge Commission were funneled via
  Tom Wilson’s lobbying firm to county and state GOP Burlco Dems 

NJ Environment

• Corzine calls for speed-up on affordable housing The governor's plan to create 100,000
  affordable housing units in New Jersey in the next decade is going to take too long. Who says?
  Governor Corzine Bergen Record  Gannett
   
• EPA estimate of tainted soil at Ciba rises More tainted soil found at ex- Ciba-Geigy
  Superfund site in Toms River AP Press

PA Politics

• Democrats organize as majority in state House Democrats nominate William DeWeese
  as House speaker in a second round of leadership elections after a close election gave them
  control of the chamber for the first time in 12 years AP

PA Environment    

• DEP suspends certifications of mine officials The Department of Environmental Protection
  temporarily suspends the mine officials’ certificates for three miners involved in the Oct. 23 fatal
  accident at R&D Coal Co.’s Buck Mountain Slope Mine in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County
  Gant Daily  PA-DEP 
   

• Scrubbers to reduce emissions at Elderton plant  Reliant Energy plans to add "scrubbers"
  to the emission systems at the Keystone Power Plant near Elderton. Some environmentalists
  rate the plant among the 13 dirtiest in the nation for  mercury and sulfur dioxide Leader Times

New York/Nation/World  
 

• In an epic battle, the NYC rat patrol digs in NY Times
• Spano looks to Congress on Indian Point  NY Journal News
• NE power plants balk at rules Times Union

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