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A sampling of top news stories... Wednesday March 15, 2006

NJ Politics

• Ethics probe targets more Treasury staff An ethics inquiry at the Department of
  Treasury has ballooned in recent days and now involves 29 state workers, including the
  director of the Division of Revenue, state officials confirm Star-Ledger 
• Report energizes critics of superintendents' perks Legislators revive languishing
  bills to stop the perks and other extra pay for public school administrators detailed in a
  searing report by the State Commission of Investigation Star-Ledger 
  > Opinion: Learning painful pension lessons Star-Ledger 
  > Editorial: End the hidden perks Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Legal battles intensify over Oyster Creek plant In the skirmish over the future
  of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, both sides–the state of NJ and Exelon, the
  facility's owner–are sending their lawyers out to do battle Bergen Record

• Officials baffled by dead porpoise How the 3-foot-long mammal got to French Creek
  -- about 13 miles north of Newark Bay -- and what killed it were anybody's guess Bergen Record

PA Politics 

• Poll: Rendell edging Swann in governor's race Morning Call

PA Environment

• Stricter emissions rules sought Enviros embrace a state plan to toughen emissions standards
  on new cars and trucks sold in PA, despite critics' concerns that the rules could add thousands of
  dollars to the price of buying a vehicle Tribune Review

• Erie Coke agrees to fix air emissions The company that operates a battery of 58 coke ovens
  at a facility on the waterfront at the mouth of Presque Isle Bay, will pay a $51,000 fine and take
  steps to reduce smoke and dust emissions PA-DEP

New York/Nation/World 

• NY acquires 2,500 acres of wilderness Plans to use the land to expand adjoining Minnewaska
  State Park Preserve NY Times

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