NJ publisher and recycling pioneer, Richard Scudder, 99

Richard B. Scudder, co-founder of MediaNews Group
Inc., publisher of the former Newark Evening News, and the man who helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be
recycled, died today at his home in Atlantic Highlands, NJ at the age of 99.

The Associated Press reports: 

A native of Newark,  Scudder was born May 13, 1913, into a newspaper
family. His grandfather, Wallace Scudder, founded the Newark Evening
News and his father, Edward Scudder, ran it.

Richard Scudder worked as a reporter for the Boston Herald before
joining the Evening News as a reporter in 1938. He took over from his
father as publisher of the Evening News in 1952, a post he held for 20
years.

In 1983, Scudder and Singleton bought the Gloucester County Times of
Woodbury and later purchased Today’s Sunbeam of Salem and several small
papers in Ohio and California.
Their partnership eventually became MediaNews Group, a
privately-owned company whose newspaper holdings include The Denver
Post, The Detroit News and San Jose Mercury News.
Its 57 newspapers in 11 states have combined daily circulations of
2.3 million, making MediaNews one of the nation’s largest newspaper
companies. It also owns a television station in Alaska and radio
stations in Texas.

In the early 1950s, Scudder had a hand in inventing a process to
remove ink from newsprint so newspapers could be recycled into quality
newsprint. After being approached by a news dealer who came up with the
idea, Scudder initially tested the process in his office and home before
moving the research to university and laboratory settings, according to
the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Appleton, Wisc.
Scudder was admitted to the hall in 1995.

He went on to found the Garden State Paper Co., whose mill in
Garfield began production in 1961. The firm later opened several other
plants and became among the largest in the world to recycle newspapers
into newsprint.

Read the full story here.

Related:
The Once Great Newark Evening News: A Remembrance & Obituary
Richard Scudder – Paper Industry International Hall of Fame (Video) 
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  • An EPA seminar: Applying Green Building Research Today (July 17)
  • A chance for the NJ public to sound off on burdensome regulation (July 17)
  • A family-oriented exploration of the NJ Pinelands aquatic environment (July 19)
  • A Permaculture Design Certificate Course (July 19-21)
  • Advice from master gardeners what’s ailing your plant (July 21)

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Two regional land conservation groups join forces

The Montgomery County Lands Trust (MCLT), which has been preserving
land in Montgomery County, Pa since 1993, has agreed to become an
affiliate of the larger Natural Lands Trust which, since 1953, has protected more than 100,000 acres of land in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

“Our paths and missions have been intertwined for many years as both
organizations have worked to protect Montgomery County’s natural and
agricultural lands,” said Molly Morrison, president of Natural Lands
Trust. “We have partnered on many projects over the years; this
affiliation will formalize that partnership and allow us to use donor
and public support even more efficiently. Our combined resources will
make both organizations stronger.”

“MCLT has always excelled in making strong, local connections. That
work will continue, but we’ll now have the support and experience of the
region’s largest and oldest conservation organization,” added Dulcie
Flaharty, executive director of MCLT. “As a land trust, we have a
perpetual obligation to the land under our protection. This affiliation
will ensure we are using resources wisely and are well positioned to
meet that obligation.”
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Under the new arrangement, Flaharty will continue to serve as
Executive Director of MCLT.  Two representatives of MCLT—current Board
Member John Harris
and long-time Director of Land Protection Jake Lea—will join Natural
Lands Trust’s Board of Trustees, which will become the governing body
for both organizations. A new committee that includes Harris, Lea, and
others associated with MCLT will explore opportunities for land
protection in the county and advise the Board of Trustees. MCLT will
continue to hold conservation easements; staff from Natural Lands Trust
will monitor these easements annually.

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Protesters shut down shale-gas well in Pennsylvania

Three protesters were arrested yesterday at a natural gas drilling site in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, Pa after their demonstration shut down site operations.
A Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry patrolman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that between 40 and 70 protesters arrived at the state forest sometime between 4 and 8 a.m. Sunday, pulled downed trees and other scattered material from the forest and placed them in about 30 piles along road leading to the site of a nearby natural gas well.


The Pocono Record reported today that the EQT Corporation’s natural gas drilling rig was
just being commissioned. Protesters said it had gone up in the last
week.
Gloria Forouzan of Marcellus Protest claimed that 150 demonstrators had blocked an access road for trucks headed to the EQT rig.

One of the protesters, 25-year-old Alex Lotorto of Pike County, said two activists
were sitting 75 feet in the air on a tree platform that had been
connected to a cable stretched across the access road. If a truck or
machine were to cross the cable and cut through it, the tree sitters
would fall, Lotorto said.
“Unfortunately, this
is the extent we have to go to,” said Lotorto, who has lived in rural
Pennsylvania since birth. He blamed energy companies for pushing
hydraulic fracturing in unwilling communities in the Marcellus Shale
region, a gas-rich rock formation thousands of feet underground in large
parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia.
Lotorto
said the new rig and fracking process was spoiling the forest, a
treasure for the local economy. He said the protesters wouldn’t leave until EQT took the rig away.
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New Pa. law aims at easing regulations on small business

If you are one of the estimated 900,000 owners of a small business in Pennsylvania, here’s some good news.

Governor Tom Corbett last week signed into law Act 76 which requires state
agencies to consider less costly or intrusive
alternatives before imposing a new regulation on your small business. 

In a bulletin to their firm’s clients, Saul Ewing  attorneys Andrew T. Bockis and  Richard Guerra explained:


“Act 76 requires state agencies, when proposing a new
regulation to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC), to identify
numerous factors concerning how the proposed regulation will affect small
businesses. IRRC is the Pennsylvania agency tasked with reviewing all
Pennsylvania agency regulations to ensure they are in the public interest. Most
agency regulations, including those proposed by the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection, must be approved by IRRC before going into effect.
Under the new law, state agencies must: 

  • Identify
    how the new regulation will financially, economically and socially impact
    small businesses.
  • Estimate
    the number of small businesses that will be affected by the proposed
    regulation.
  • Project
    the cost of compliance with the proposed regulation for small businesses.
  • Describe
    methods by which the state agency could reduce the proposed regulation’s
    impact on small businesses.”

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