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Fury over proposed new power plant in Newark's East Ward
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Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission wants natural gas power plant as backup energy source
Residents and environmental activists are furious about a plan to develop a new power plant in Newark, just off the Ironbound section. That’s where the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, which processes sewage from dozens of north Jersey communities, wants to protect against future outages by building a natural gas power plant to provide backup power for its main facility.
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Fury over proposed new power plant in Newark's East Ward
Clip: 1/12/2022 | 3m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Residents and environmental activists are furious about a plan to develop a new power plant in Newark, just off the Ironbound section. That’s where the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, which processes sewage from dozens of north Jersey communities, wants to protect against future outages by building a natural gas power plant to provide backup power for its main facility.
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Business Report: Reactions to State of the State address
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Clip: 1/12/2022 | 2m 47s | Murphy State of State speech touted tax cuts. Business groups say NJ taxes still too high (2m 47s)
Critics want more scrutiny if Menendez Jr. to follow Sires
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Clip: 1/12/2022 | 4m 2s | Local and state Democratic leaders have endorsed Menendez to take over from Sires (4m 2s)
Murphy to renominate Rachel Wainer Apter to Supreme Court
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Clip: 1/12/2022 | 53s | Lack of approval by Republican Sen. Holly Schepisi had stalled confirmation (53s)
Parents, care centers work to protect children from COVID-19
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Clip: 1/12/2022 | 4m 43s | Children not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccination need to be kept safe in other ways (4m 43s)
Redistricting tiebreaker defends choice to go with Dems’ map
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Clip: 1/12/2022 | 1m 11s | Former justice: Dems’ congressional map ‘better satisfied standard for partisan fairness’ (1m 11s)
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