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                                                   Tuesday, July 3, 2007
            
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NJ Politics 

• Newark can't say how U.S. aid spent The city cannot account for how it spent $10M in federal Community Development Block Grant money during an 11-year period because of poor record keeping
  Star-Ledger  
  > City tries to take back lots sold on the cheap S-Ledger
   
• Newark’s Mayor battles old guard and rumors Mayor Cory A. Booker is not really black. One
  of his top aides moonlights as a cocaine dealer. The city is about to lay off African-American crossing guards and replace them with low-wage immigrants. Rumors like these, born in Internet chat rooms
  and anonymous mailings, gain traction in barbershops, on basketball courts and after church on Sunday
  NY Times

NJ Environment 

• State toughens rules on idling The DEP shortens the time that truck and bus drivers can idle their vehicles as part of a campaign to reduce the number of tiny  toxic soot particles emitted by diesel engines Bergen Record

• Paramus may set up pesticide screening School board officials are working to set up a screening
  test for West Brook Middle School students and faculty to determine whether they were exposed to pesticides from contaminated soil Bergen Record

PA Environment

• A tax, or any other name, would raise ire Is it or isn't it a new tax? Confronting a key roadblock to his ambitious package of energy proposals, Gov. Rendell visited a Chester County Wawa store yesterday to publicly dismiss the question as irrelevant and lambaste Republican lawmakers for focusing on it Philadelphia Inquirer
   

• Montco firms' emissions challenged in U.S. court  A consortium of environmental groups filed suit, challenging an EPA rule that exempts two Montgomery County manufacturers from cutting emissions of a suspected carcinogen Inquirer  EP Blog

PA Politics 

• State's legislative stalemate continues Unless a new state budget is signed within days, the services Pennsylvanians finance with their tax dollars will become patchy, and more than 25,000 state employees will
  stop receiving paychecks at the height of summer Observer Reporter  Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World

• Schumer backs power-line review. Sen. Charles Schumer will introduce a bill amending a 2005
  federal act that he says allows the NY Regional Interconnect utility to circumvent state scrutiny in its
  plans for a high-voltage power line that would run through Madison and Oneida counties Post-Standard
• New firm to head West Valley nuke cleanup Buffalo News
• Schwarzenegger fires CA’s air board chairman LA Times
   

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