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In Pennsylvania
advocates send New York water to Pennsylvania town Advocates who want to keep the natural-gas drilling
industry out of New York state are sending clean water to a northeastern
Pennsylvania village. About a dozen households in
Dimock, Pa., have been scrambling after a gas driller blamed for polluting the
aquifer halted daily water deliveries. Residents there say drilling has made
their water unfit to drink. Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. says it is
safe AP Times-Tribune
Revenue
for Marcellus Shale income taxes is lower than estimated The amount, in rent
and royalties, that Pa. residents are receiving from gas companies was estimated
at about $103 million but was more like $46 million AP
In New Jersey
SCI report: Ligambi a ‘garbage monster’ Reputed Mafia don Joseph “Uncle Joe”
Ligambi, who is awaiting trial on racketeering charges in Philadelphia, is a
“garbage mobster,” according to
“Industrious Subversion,” a State Commission of Investigation look at organized crime’s incursion into the
solid-waste-disposal and recycling industries
Inquirer SHB
NJ Spotlight
Natural gas,
nuclear get bigger role in energy plan New Jersey
will depend less on solar panels, wind turbines and other renewable energy
sources than originally proposed as Governor
Christie approved a plan Tuesday that calls for increased
reliance on natural gas and nuclear energy The
Record NJ Spotlight