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In Pennsylvania

Coal
plants’ permits draw challenge
Conservation and
clean air groups filed an appeal late last week with the state in an attempt to
force the DEP to review outdated air-quality permit renewals for coal plants
across the state, most of which are in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Tribune
Review

Bass
blotches, intersexing could be linked
Vicki Blazer, a U.S. Geological Survey fish biologist with the U.S.
Geological Survey, who was honored as the Protector of the Potomac for her
groundbreaking work investigating intersexed fish on that river, said there may
be a link between the intersexing in Susquehanna River small mouth bass and the
blotches reported by anglers Daily
Item


In New Jersey


GAO report
disputes Christie’s Hudson River rail fears
A federal report released
this morning has sparked a fight over whether Governor Christie inflated the
cost of a Hudson River rail tunnel project to justify his decision in October
2010 to shut the project down
The Record
  Statehouse Bureau 
NY Times


Firefighters gaining control of large
NJ wildfire
Firefighters
have contained about 75 percent of a wildfire that has consumed about 1,000
acres in southern New Jersey
AP
> Wind-fueled fires burning homes and land Star-Ledger
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Wildfire
burns 1,000 acres in Burlington County
Inquirer

 

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