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           A sampling of top news stories... Monday July 31, 2006
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NJ Politics

• Special interests mobilize for tax reform fight Teachers, police officers, firefighters and
  other politically powerful public employee groups fear curbs on salary, benefits Bergen Record 
  > Taxes driving people out of Jersey Why George Taber and others no longer call Jersey
  home Star-Ledger  Cartoon                                                                                             

NJ Environment

• Where disasters wait to happen A maze of underground lines raises the risk of gas
  explosions Star-Ledger
  > Five natural gas blasts in 2004, 2005 Star-Ledger

• Activists fret over nuclear fuel transfer The three-reactor Salem Generating Station at
  the neck of Delaware Bay, will soon begin moving highly radioactive fuel rods from one of its
  reactors into specially designed casks Courier-Post  Today's Sunbeam

PA Politics 

• Swann brings in a N.Y. strategist to lead campaign Seeking to narrow gaping poll
  and fund-raising margins between himself and Gov. Rendell, Republican candidate Lynn
  Swann has hired a veteran New York political operative to fire up his campaign for the
  final stretch Inquirer
  >Swann hops on the biodiesel bus He outfits his bus - Reform One - to run on
  soybeans Timesonline

PA Environment

• Utilities say DEP mercury rule could reduce power needed in heat waves
  "People used air conditioners and fans to cope with the heat wave last week," says
  Douglas L. Biden, President of the Electric Power Generation Association. "Now imagine
  trying to meet that record demand with 20 percent less coal-fired generating capacity.
  That's how much capacity is threatened with closure because of the way DEP wants
  to reduce mercury emissions from power plants PR Newswire 

New York/Nation/World  

• Business blackout losses exceed Con Ed’s limit NY Times
• DEC seeks comment on new cleanup rules Journal-News

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