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To keep Tampa Bay clean, we could use tax breaks to reward pro-environment business behavior.

NJEDA approved a brownfields program that will provide $300 million in incentive funding for redevelopment projects.

Residents were encouraged to stay indoors during the environmental cleanup.  The action — slated to take up to three weeks to complete — started Monday at the Crane Creek site where contractors had already built the Heritage Park apartment complex along the intersection of Grant and Burr streets. The contaminated soil will be collected, loaded onto 10 trucks, and hauled to a site in Osceola County.  "It's a slight victory," said Joseph McNeil, president of the Concerned Citizens Committee, the group that lobbied Melbourne City Council for the site to be designated for environment...

A day and a half. That's how much time New Jersey taxpayers had to examine a 219-page bill, which creates a program that could give businesses billions in tax breaks, before Friday committee votes — when so many changes were made, it took 142 pages to explain them all. The changes drove up the total price tag of the bill, from $11.5 billion to more than $14.5 billion, despite concerns from progressives the state couldn't shoulder such a financial loss. The full Assembly and Senate expect to vote on the bill Monday and send it to Gov. Phil Murphy to sign. He has indicated he would sign...