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                                                      Thursday, May 31, 2007
            
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NJ Politics  

• AG to be named Supreme Court justice Gov. Jon Corzine has decided to nominate Attorney General Stuart Rabner to the top judicial post and First Assistant AG Anne Milgram is likely to replace Rabner, say sources close to Corzine Star-Ledger
• SEC investigates state reports on pension funding Federal authorities have launched civil and criminal investigations into a series of maneuvers NJ officials used over the past decade to shore up state budgets by skipping billions of dollars in contributions to the state's retirement accounts for teachers and public employees Star-Ledger

 NJ Environment  

Farmers survive the lost bee colonies

In Hammonton, NJ, the self-proclaimed blueberry capital of the world, on the biggest blueberry farm of its kind in the world, the mysterious disappearance of the honey bee could have spelled disaster.  But thanks to the weather and an infusion of imported new bees, things are working out just fine. At left,  commercial beekeeper Grant Stiles examines his bees at Variety Farms in Hammonton Inquirer

Michael S. Wirtz/Inquirer

• Paramus school is shut while DEP removes tainted soil The Department of Environmental Protection was to remove contaminated soil found at a Paramus school that was closed to students yesterday over safety concerns Star-Ledger

• Coyote may not be culprit in dog's death A small dog that was killed outside a home in  Middletown earlier this week may not have been attacked by a coyote, New Jersey wildlife officials said yesterday Star-Ledger

PA Environment

• Regulators delay PPL rate decision State regulators voted Wednesday to investigate a rate hike request of $83.6 million sought by PPL Electric Utilities in distribution rates Express-Times

• DEP, railroad agree on creek cleanup Norfolk Southern will complete restoration of a train derailment site where 42,000 gallons of lye spilled and damaged a trout stream, the DEP says
  Centre Daily Times

PA Politics 

• Poll shows voters want term limits in Legislature Pennsylvania voters, who don't hold a very high opinion of the performance of state legislators, overwhelmingly favor term limits for their lawmakers and, by a slimmer margin, would like to see the Legislature trimmed Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World

• Report: City expects $8.9B more in tax collections NY Sun

• Study shows hundreds of dead birds at wind turbines While generating megawatts of electricity, windmills on the Tug Hill Plateau in northern New York are also killing hundreds of bats and birds, according to a recent studyIthicaJournal.com

• Parkinson's linked to pesticides, head trauma Forbes

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