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 NJ Politics   

• Peers say union leader compromises contract talks The presidents of five state-worker unions charge that  their contract negotiations were being undermined by the personal relationship between the governor and Carla Katz, a labor leader who  took hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from Mr. Corzine after they ended their romance in 2004 NY Times Inquire

• Critics question Corzine's silence on gifts He doesn’t see any inconsistency between pressing for new ethical standards and the non-disclosure of past gifts to Katz Bergen Record

• Extreme makeover: Shipping containers The blue, red and rust-colored shipping containers stacked like giant Lego blocks have become part of the landscape along the NJ Turnpike and Routes 1&9 in Newark. Now a company plans to use them to construct its Newark office--the first large-scale structure in North America made completely of the containers Star-Ledger  
   
• 'Eco-palms' can help sustain God's green earth Four North Jersey churches will turn over a new
  leaf on Palm Sunday, joining movement to celebrate the day with "eco-palms" Bergen Record

PA Environment

• Upgrades for sewerage plants tax municipalities As a 2010 deadline looms to upgrade sewage facilities, Altoona-area communities are discovering that a multi-state agreement to clean up Chesapeake Bay could cost local taxpayers millions of dollars Times Leader
   

• 733-home development approved Supervisors in Southampton, Cumberland County, approve a 733-home cluster development off Route 11 Carlisle Sentinel

PA Politics 

• Activist says PA could be 'ashtray of Northeast' Anti-smoking activist says it's only a matter
  of time before PA joins its neighbors in making the no-smoking trend at eateries into law
  Express-Times

New York/Nation/World  

• NY mineral water spa mixed with tap The famed “natural mineral water” baths at Sarasota Spa State Park have been diluted with regulated tap water for the past two decades, state officials confirm AC Press

• Analysis: Biofuels boom raises tough questions AP  

• Dispute over protected Suffolk County farms Newsday

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