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A
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Monday, July 16, 2007
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NJ Politics
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NJ
congressmen sitting on PACs of cash
With the
next election more than
a year off, NJ’s 13-member congressional delegation is ready with $14.2 M in
campaign cash
Bergen Record
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Turnpike deal needs a super salesman
Governor
Corzine has a long road
ahead to win an already skeptical public over to the idea of selling or leasing
state assets like the NJ Turnpike. So say observers and veterans of similar
campaigns
Bergen Record
NJ Environment
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Suit seeks to void
state Highlands act
A lawsuit filed
in Superior Court by a
major housing developer seeks to invalidate the state Highlands preservation act
on the grounds that it blocks the construction of affordable housing
Star-Ledger
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NJ losing edge in
recycled plastic industry it pioneered
While sales of
plastic lumber continue to increase nationwide, the industry is on the verge of
collapse in NJ, the state that pioneered the technology. Polywood Inc., which
had
been the state's lone producer of plastic wood, went bankrupt last year. And the
Center for Advanced Polymer Materials is hanging by a thread
Star-Ledger
PA
Environment
- They Came, They Stayed, They
Conquered
For several years,
foresters and entomologists have watched with horror - and dread - as a
half-inch green bug—the
Emerald Ash Borer—spread outward from Detroit, leaving 25 million dead ash
trees
behind. Now, the invasive species has reached Pennsylvania
Inquirer
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DEP fines power plant
for pollution
The owners of a
coal-fired power plant will
pay a $200,000 fine and modify a wastewater treatment system after polluting
waterways
in Indiana County, DEP officials say
AP
PA Politics
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PA legislators close in on budget
The
state budget for fiscal 2007-08 is now 16
days late, but the House and the Senate are finally moving quickly to
correct that situation
Post-Gazette Inquirer
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Gun-control bill passes
The
legislature last night passes a gun-control bill advocated
by Philadelphia lawmakers, a notable feat in a state so strong on the right
to bear arms
and so hostile to the city's efforts to regulate them
Inquirer
New
York/Nation/World
- Politics, pollution
collide in NYC Plan A proposed
''congestion pricing'' toll system to reduce traffic and pollution will be too
expensive, its array of cameras for enforcement will threaten civil liberties,
and downtown businesses will shrivel. New York City, 2007? Try London 2002
NY Times
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