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           A sampling of top news stories... Thursday October 12, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• Corzine creates group to consider hospital closings Some of the state’s 120
  hospitals could face closure under an executive order issued today by Gov. Corzine
  AP Press

• O'Grady gets 43 months in federal prison Ex-Middletown official sentenced for
  taking $8,000 in bribes to help secure public contracts. O’Grady once bragged he could
   “could smell a cop a mile away”  AP Press  Star-Ledger  NY Times 

NJ Environment  

• Justices reject challenge to waterway 'no-build zones' The state Supreme Court
  will not consider an appeal by the NJ Builders Association challenging the state's water
  protection regulations, leaving intact rules that are considered the toughest in the nation;
  ruling effectively puts up to 300,000 acres off limits to construction Star-Ledger
  Bergen Record

• NJ counties, towns awarded $4.5M in recycling grants The awards are performance-
  based, requiring documentation of total material recycled during calendar year 2004—the
  latest annual statistics available for the state. NJ generated 21.7 million tons of solid waste
  and recycled 55 percent  NJ-DEP   Grants list

PA Politics 

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PA Environment

            Outdoor boiler steams up neighbors

               
                                                Betty E. Cauler/Morning Times
            Rick Fatzinger’s wood-fired boiler at
            his Washington Twp., PA home has
            some of his neighbors steamed Story

• Judge to rule on sludge The owner and operator of a Lower Towamensing farm say
  they are permitted to openly stockpile tons of treated human and animal waste on their
  land under state agriculture law Express-Times
   

• Neville Chemical fined again $160,000 fine assessed for failure to inspect and
  maintain 11 above-ground storage tanks on Neville Island Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Gilded path to political stardom, with detours NY Times
• EPA finalizes clean-ups for 5 NY Superfund sites EPA
• $5.5M awarded for Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts EPA

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