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Environmental & Political News January 28, 2008

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New Jersey Politics

• Corzine: Budget to take toll on Trenton status quo While the debate rages
  over the big toll hikes in his plan to restructure the state's finances, Gov. Jon Corzine predicts a less publicized part of the proposal -- a state budget that includes deep
  cuts -- may cause even more controversy Star-Ledger

New Jersey Environment 

• Cleanup effort lags on source of pollution Four years ago, NJ approved far-
  reaching new rules aimed at reining in storm water — its greatest water pollution
  problem and largest source of ocean, bay, river and lake swimming bans. But many
  towns have failed to win approval for their plans AP Press
   

• Does your new property sit over an old landfill? Like many states in the
  Northeast, NJ has a buried industrial past, often forgotten until a developer breaks
  ground AC Press

Pennsylvania Environment

• Pocono Medical Center fined for waste dumping Hospital must pay a $100,000
  fine for improperly handling medical waste in 2006, says the state DEP Pocono Record
   

• I-99 section to be open by December, PennDOT says Environmental concerns have hampered the project in Blair and Centre counties Morning Call

Pennsylvania Politics    

• Building trades, Council near accord When City Council told the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council in December to come up with minority
  inclusion plans for all 17 unions involved in the $700 million Convention Center
  expansion, some observers thought that labor would not buy in Inquirer

New York/Nation/World 

• In NY state’s woods and streams, a modern-day Artemis  Patricia Riexinger
  is the first woman director of the New York State’s Division of Fish, Wildlife and
  Marine Resources, a traditionally masculine domain New York Times
   
• Mining agency finds penalties lapse The federal agency that regulates the
  nation’s mining industry says that it has failed to issue penalties for hundreds of
  citations issued since 2000 and that the problem could extend back beyond 1995 AP

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