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N.J. energy policy receives another revision
New Jersey is overhauling its energy policy for the second time in three years as states make rewrites to keep up with technology changes and ideological shifts.
Northeastern states have been responding lately to the abundance of natural gas drawn from the Pennsylvania section of the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation in the Appalachian basin. It has dropped gas prices to a third of 2008 peaks. (Jordan, Gannett)