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           A sampling of top news stories... Friday September 29, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• Menendez denies role in alleged shakedown With the Democratic establishment
  standing firmly behind him, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez denies involvement in the alleged
  shakedown of a Union City psychiatrist seven years ago Star-Ledger
  > Scarinci: A power lawyer who likes to play the 'game' The man at the center of
  new allegations is known as Menendez's "right arm" Inquirer
  > Uproar stirs speculation of departure from race Inquirer

NJ Environment  

• Plan to seal radioactive slag pile meets opposition State legislators join local
  officials in protesting a plan to seal low-grade radioactive waste at an industrial site in
  Newfield, Gloucester County. ShieldAlloy says the slag pile poses no health risk to the
  community Courier Post  Bridgeton News  AC Press  Daily Journal
   
• Cleanup costs could doom PSEG plant PSEG Power may have to shut down its
  coal-fired power plant in Hudson County by the end of the year, backing out of an
  agreement to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to curb pollution from what is one
  of NJ's dirtiest power plants Star-Ledger 

PA Politics 

• No stories today 

PA Environment

• DEP probe: Did blasting trigger slide on Route 65? The state DEP is investigating
  whether the landslide that closed Route 65/Ohio River Boulevard in Kilbuck was triggered
  by bigger explosive charges used the day prior to the slide at the construction site
  Post-Gazette
   

• Mercury damage assessment ordered The DEP orders Robertshaw Controls Co. of
  Richmond, Va., to assess mercury contamination at its former thermostatic controls
  manufacturing facility in Westmoreland County and to control stormwater runoff to keep the
  pollutant out of a local creek PA-DEP

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Pirro & Pirro: Love, power and distrust NY Times
• MTA board approves rail-yard sale plan y Associated Press
• More find fault with Atlantic Yards eco-review NY Times

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