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"The Obama administration split a half-billion "recovery" dollars among nine U.S. windmill operators and a couple of solar-power projects yesterday, and said it has lots more where that came from."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, led by Lisa Jackson, has released an audit report critical of the site remediation program at a the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection during the term of its former commissioner, Lisa Jackson. Yes, the same Lisa Jackson.

New York Gov. David Paterson is renewing a push to allow Indian casinos in the Catskills, a long-stalled project that would boost revenue for the state and the region but is bitterly opposed by environmental groups and others.

New Jersey's environmental politics gets weirder--and more entertaining--each day.

An amusing but revealing story about modern life in Sunday's New York Times declares: Coffee Can Wait. Day's First Stop Is Online.

There's nothing hotter in New Jersey this summer than the federal corruption investigation which has led to the arrest of 44 public officials and the resignations of an Assemblyman, two mayors and a member of the governor's cabinet. On the heels of the story, several environmental groups are calling for an investigation of the state DEP, claiming the
agency was directly involved in the bribery scheme.

The governors of New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware would all like to claim credit for being the first state to meet some of its energy needs with electricity produced from clean and renewable offshore winds. But hold on there, podner. There's a new contender who could gallop ahead of the Northeast pack.