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A sampling of top news stories... Monday March 13, 2006
NJ Politics
BPU members prove to be frequent fliers
While energy prices
soar, those who
regulate the industry in NJ, members of the Board of Public Utilities, have
been traveling
all over the world for conferences and workshops
AP Press
>Trip logs: From Colorado to Ethiopia
AP Press
Fund raising is Menendez's
meal ticket Talk about
red-meat politics. As he built a
campaign war chest over the past five years, Sen. Robert Menendez spent more
than
$80,000 at the Morton's steakhouse in downtown Washington
Bergen Record
>Rail advocacy puts Menendez on gravy train
B. Record
NJ Environment
New
environmental chief nurtures more straight talk
The
state's 14th environmental
commissioner on Feb. 28, already is stepping on powerful Lisa Jackson, who
became toes;
she’s
says
she’ll
take a
second look at
a
project backed by South Jersey's most potent
Democratic machine
and has blasted a Coast Guard-supervised cleanup in the Arthur Kill
Newhouse
Chevron accepting claims for oil damage HNT
Army Corps has 4 months to
settle NY/NJ harbor issue
A
federal judge gives the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers four more months to prove it has sufficiently
studied environmental
threats from a $1.6B project to dredge shipping channels
AP
PA Politics
PA seizes
paper's computer hard disks
In an unusual and
little-known case, the PA AG's
Office has seized four computer hard drives from a Lancaster newspaper as part
of a statewide
grand-jury investigation into leaks to reporters
Inquirer
PA Environment
PA aims to
turn tainted mine water into revenue stream
The
one time coal king and
home to some of the nation’s worst mining damage, is hoping to parlay an
expensive problem
into cheap, new resources that could pay for cleanups
AP
Rendell
calls for energy independence
He thinks its time to
move away from traditional
sources of energy, and he wants everyone to get behind him
Citizens Voice
New York/Nation/World
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