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           A sampling of top news stories... Tuesday September 26, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• Embattled Bryant gives up key Senate budget post Sen. Wayne Bryant, the powerful
  chairman of the Appropriations and Budget Committee, steps down from the influential post
  amid mounting political pressure over a federal monitor's findings that he ordered the state's
  medical university to give him a no-show job Star-Ledger  Gannett  Express-Times Bergen Record 
  > Rutgers Law School lauds Bryant for new building Hours after stepping down as
  chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee in a swirl of scandal, he is
  praised at law school groundbreaking ceremony Inquirer                                            

Environment  

• Two NJ sites added to federal Superfund list EPA is restoring the Ringwood Mines/Landfill
  site to the NPL and adding the Matteo & Sons site in Thorofare EPA news release  
   

• Planned VX dump has had violations The South Jersey site that will process waste from
  1,269 tons of VX nerve agent has paid more than $200,000 in state fines this year for environmental
  and safety failings, some involving the Delaware  Express-Times

PA Politics 

• Poll: Casey’s lead over Santorum has doubled Casey shows a 14-point lead in the
  Quinnipiac University Poll AP

• Rendell now regrets role in pay raise Gov. Rendell, for the first time publicly, said yesterday
  he made "a mistake" by signing the controversial legislative pay raises into law last year Inquirer

PA Environment

• 2 Sago Mine safety workers commit suicide Neither man had been blamed for the disaster
  that killed 12 of their comrades, and neither one's family has definitively linked the suicides to the
  accident. But those who knew the men say there is little doubt the tragedy haunted them AP

• PA mine cleanup could depend on inheritance tax The continued cleanup of dangerous
  abandoned mine lands and streams deadened by mine pollution in Pennsylvania may depend
  on federal legislation that would eliminate inheritance taxes for the wealthy Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Power-line bill on Pataki's desk recordonline.com
• Group may sue over cordoned-off park Daily News

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