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                                                    Thursday, June 21, 2007
            
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NJ Politics 

• State budget's massive hole: Pension debts Tucked within the $33.5B budget that the Senate
  and Assembly expect to pass today is a gremlin that will gobble up hundreds of millions in tax
  dollars for decades to come: the state's failure to keep up with soaring pension costs Star-Ledger  

• State investigating counterterrorism chief Did Homeland Security Director Richard Cañas
  seek to have two state workers compensated for helping him move into a new home? Star-Ledger

NJ Environment 

• Vote today on stop-gap plan for open space The $200M in proposed funding for the continued preservation of open space has calmed clamoring by legislators and environmentalists who called for
  the governor to support a 30-year funding source for the Garden State Preservation Trust. But the
  stop-gap measure doesn't ensure that the fight won't be revived Express-Times  
   

• Charitable trust out to save herring from extinction The deep pockets of the Pew Charitable Trusts are funding the Herring Alliance, a new ocean environmental group inspired in part by a huge Maine-based freezer vessel that was processing Atlantic mackerel and scup off NJ last winter
  AP Press

PA Environment

• Biofuels bills are fueling debate The centerpiece of Governor Rendell’s Energy Independence Strategy, a multi-pronged proposal contained in four bills now under consideration in the General Assembly, is an $850M fund raised through a bond issue to support conservation and development
  of clean energy. Interest on the bonds would be covered by a surcharge on electric bills of consumers and businesses Inquirer
   

• Fish study raises red flag on water supply Fish caught in the rivers near Allegheny County's
  storm sewer overflow pipes contain almost twice as much of certain chemicals that can cause cancer,
  University of Pittsburgh study finds Post-Gazette  

PA Politics 

• Transit-funding measures on tap State House members are likely to vote today on proposals
  to raise money for mass transit, highways and bridges, without leasing the PA Turnpike Inquirer

New York/Nation/World

• Bloomberg aides long prepared for bid NY Times Cartoon

• How the bloggers see NYC’s ‘congestion price’ Star-Ledger

• EPA airs plan to tighten ozone, smog standards NPR 

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