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           A sampling of top news stories... Tuesday October 17, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• Kean campaign to get $500,000 from GOP NJ Republican Senate candidate
  Tom Kean Jr. will get $500,000 from his national party, the first such money sent
  to his campaign to unseat Sen. Robert Menendez Bergen Record Star-Ledger
   
• Ethics questions abound for turnpike chief Critics charge that those close to
  Joseph Simunovich have received contracts, lofty appointments or other assistance
  from the boards and agencies on which he has served for six years Bergen Record

NJ Environment  

• NY spills prompt NJ town to warn of suit Upper Saddle River places neighboring|
  village of Airmont, NY, and Rockland County Sewer District on notice, warning them
  to stop sewage spills into the Saddle River or face a lawsuit Bergen Record                                               

• Superfund site re-listed and inquiry begins  More than 16,000 tons of sludge and
  soil have been removed from the Ringwood Mines/Landfill site since 2004 by Ford contractors
  under an agreement with the EPA, and in 2005 Ford agreed to a demand by the agency
  to reinvestigate the site  NY Times

PA Politics 

• Weldon probe widens Feds raid 6 spots in PA, FL; congressman denies
  wrongdoing Daily News
   

•  GOP's Nov. campaign gets another challenge Inquirer

PA Environment                                                                   

• Soot release doesn't pose health threat  The arsenic that was part of the July 22
  release from the stack at FirstEnergy's Bruce Mansfield coal-burning power plant in
  Shippingport doesn't pose a health threat to humans unless it's eaten in large quantities,
  says a public health specialist hired by the electric company Times Online Post-Gazette 

• Congress holds floodwall fate Now that Bloomsburg council has voted to support
  a floodwall plan, the fate of the project depends on Congress Press-Enterprise

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Javits joy for Mike, Pataki Daily News
• CA and NY sign greenhouse accord Newsday    Inquirer
• Congressmen seek action on Newtown Creek NY Times

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