EnviroPolitics
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A sampling of top news stories... Friday March 10, 2006

NJ Politics

• GOP chief urges ethics review of bail loan  Members of the governor's Advisory Ethics Panel
  say they would consider the request. Governor Corzine's  top lawyer said there was nothing amiss
  in the $5,000 in bail-money loan made by Corzine to a lobbyist  who has been charged with stalking
  the chairman of the State Democratic Committee Star-Ledger  NY Times  Bergen Record 
  Cartoon 1  Cartoon 2 

•  DEP admits errors on tainted fill soil The state's top environmental official tells an Assembly
  committee the agency made mistakes in handling revelations of PCB-contaminated fill that found its
  way to seven construction sites Trenton Times  

NJ Environment

• Feds supporting Petty’s Island refuge Federal wildlife officials send a letter of support for the
  preservation of embattled Petty's Island, off Pennsauken, saying this could significantly help the
  recovery of bald eagles in the state. DEP’s new chief, Lisa Jackson, is reviewing the preceding
  McGreevey administration’s rejection of CITGO Petroleum Corp.'s offer to donate the island as a
  wildlife preserve  Courier-Post
• Rate hikes ride on PSEG ruling BPU is sitting on $200M in rate hikes requested by Public
  Service Electric and Gas Co., including $64M it has already approved Bergen Record  

PA Politics 

• U.S. says Fumo's ex-aide hit 'delete' Federal prosecutors believe a former aide to State Sen.
  Vincent J. Fumo destroyed office e-mails in an attempt to thwart an FBI probe into a Fumo-backed
  charity Inquirer

PA Environment

• Drivers devouring hybrid $$ PA drivers burning through the state’s rebate program for hybrid
  electric cars Times Tribune

• U.S. accuses workers of dumping sewage Federal authorities charged two Bristol Township
  employees with felony violations of the Clean Water Act on allegations that they dumped untreated
  sewage into the Delaware River Inquirer

New York/Nation/World 

• Pirro goes on attack against potential AG foe Cuomo It's never too early to begin attacking
  a potential Democratic opponent Journal News  

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