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- Public Service Enterprise Group’s Hudson generating station on the Hackensack River is being outfitted with filters that promise to dramatically cut down on the barrage of toxic substances that leave its 500-foot smokestack every day. However, the $700 million project will not prevent the release of the biggest contributor to global warming: carbon.

- The Board of Education is out of room for its Abbott pre-K program, meaning five 3-year-olds and more than a hundred 4-year-olds who are eligible for the program remain on the waiting list.

- The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a banquet at Puccini’s tonight.

- Foodie news: The Life Vicarious has an update on American Masala, the newish Indian restaurant on Greene Street; he also notes that yet another food truck is in the mix these days, the Louisiana Spice truck.

Today’s Best Bets:

- You’ve got your choice of theater options this evening, with J CITY’s Passion and the Attic Ensemble’s Come Blow Your Horn both raising curtains. Meanwhile, the free movies continue this week at the Warehouse with Thelma and Louise.

In statewide news:

- A new study from the National Consumer Law Center says New Jersey’s initiative to help troubled homeowners has aided only a small percentage of the estimated 60,000 of those who face foreclosure this year.

- Public records reveal that Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie bought and sold stock in a travel and real estate company while it was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office he led at the time. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that Christie has some unfortunate family ties to the Genovese crime family.

- The Palisades Interstate Park will celebrate its 100th anniversary this weekend.