EnviroPolitics
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A sampling of top news stories... Friday March 3, 2006

NJ Politics 

• NJ property tax bite rises 6% NJ's average property tax bill in 2005 neared
  $6,000, rising 6 percent from 2004 and ballooning nearly 40 percent over the past
  five years Bergen Record Cartoon

• A costly lesson for NJ  The state Schools Construction Corp. paid the family of
  a reputed mob associate millions for a property despite questions about its safety
  Bergen Record 

NJ Environment

• State orders criminal probe of tainted fill The attorney general launches
  a criminal investigation into PCB-tainted crushed concrete deposited at five Central
  Jersey construction sites Trenton Times  Home News Tribune
  > Decision came after AG met with DEP chief Star-Ledger
  > Plant security bill advances in Senate Committee advances a bill requiring
  background checks for third-party contractors hired to do work in NJ chemical plants
  and refineries Express-Times

PA Politics 

• A snub from U.S. on war museum U.S. government to Governor Rendell: We are
  keeping Valley Forge National Historical Park Inquirer

 PA Environment

• State shelves I-99 plan Barely a month after announcing a $40M plan to clean up the
  acid-rock drainage hazard at Skytop Mountain, the state postpones it, citing overwhelming
  opposition in Indiana and Cambria counties Centre Daily I-99 timeline

• Alternate project gets renewed consideration A plan to build a landfill along the
  Interstate 99 corridor in Worth Township, near I-99's Port Matilda bypass, will likely come
  back out of the closet now that PennDOT has decided to evaluate "all options" for disposal
  of a million tons of pyritic rocks Centre Daily

New York/Nation/World 

• Report: No need for LNG terminal on LI Sound Newsday
• Antarctic ice sheet is melting rapidly Washington Post
• A beetle frolics with the seals Paul McCartney and his wife take to the frigid ice floes of the
  Atlantic to save baby seals AP

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