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                                             Friday, Feb 9, 2007
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NJ Politics

Ready for battle: Workers picket throughout NJ State workers picketed work sites across
the state amid intense contract negotiations with Gov. Corzine's administration, which has vowed
to seek pension and health-care changes to try to control spending and property taxes AP
Bridgeton News Daily Journal

Senate considering tighter ethics deal A package of five bills intended to tighten lawmakers'
ethics wins easy approval in one Senate committee while a pilot program of public financing for
legislative elections squeezes through another S. Ledger Bergen Record

NJ Environment

Legislators differ on how to pay for electronics recycling Saying the materials in old computers
or televisions pose environmental and health hazards, state lawmakers yesterday pressed for a measure
to ensure the obsolete products are recycled rather than junked in a landfill. The question was: Who
should pay to make sure it happens? Star-Ledger

An appeal on chemical plant safety New Jersey should be allowed to maintain stricter chemical plant security rules than the federal government, Gov. Jon Corzine says in a letter Star-Ledger

PA Politics

Fumo charges may fuel reform, new probes in Legislature In the aftermath of a corruption indictment against one of PA's most powerful lawmakers, the top state senator is vowing to put new teeth into future audits of legislative spending and the state attorney general is weighing an investigation into whether the bonuses paid to many legislative staffers were illegal rewards for campaign work AP

PA Environment

Sun sets on Rising Son compost site The state revokes authorizations and approvals for Rising Son Farms Inc., North Whitehall Twp, Lehigh County, for repeated violations Morning Call PA-DEP
DEP ratchets up mine inspections Bureau of Mine Safety begins ''enhanced'' inspections of the state's 14 underground anthracite mines to help identify problems that caused a fatal mine blast in Schuylkill County in October Morning Call News Item

New York/Nation/World

NY moves toward suit over a 50-year-old oil spill State moves to sue Exxon Mobil and four other companies to force them to clean up a half-century-old spill of millions of gallons of oil lying under the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn and to repair environmental damage inflicted on a nearby creek NYT

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