Nominations Sought for Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30  /PRNewswire/ -- If you know a person, organization, or business that has helped to enhance the environment of western Pennsylvania, that achievement could win a $5,000 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Award.
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A school playground, an eco-therapy unit and a council's twin- bin recycling scheme are among those shortlisted for an award for ecological innovation.   The County Durham Environment Award winners will be announced tomorrow with the successful projects receiving cash prizes.
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By Will Elliott  The sweep is on.  Volunteers will be scouring shorelines in a clean-up effort to beautify and make more functional waterways around Western New York.
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By Nardone, Ralph On Nov. 16, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) submitted mercury emissions rules to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which will require stricter mercury emissions reductions for state-based industries.
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 3--Environmental groups say Ohio should do more to protect poor and minority communities from pollution and are asking residents of those neighborhoods for help.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 14--Conservation groups on Wednesday appealed a stormwater permit issued by the state Department of Ecology for cities in Western Washington, claiming it won't do enough to curb polluted stormwater runoff.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  16 farmers in the region are hoping to be finalists. ------------ --------   Sixteen farmers in Horizon's Manawatu-Wanganui region are going for the top environment prize, hoping to be finalists in the region's Ballance Farm Environment awards.
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President Bush has nominated EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt to replace Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services secretary. Before joining the Environmental Protection Agency, Leavitt, 53, was governor of
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By Laura Oppenheimer, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Sep. 4--Parks supporters will make the case this fall that drinking clean  water, trekking through the forest and watching animals play are as valuable  as traditional government services competing for money on Portland-area  ballots.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa. May 26--Berks County's environmental defense fund stands to nearly double to $1.45 million because of landfill penalties announced Friday by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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By Don Gasper  Lawmakers in Congress have an important opportunity right now to permanently protect some of the most special remaining wild places in the Monongahela National Forest. Wild and wonderful West Virginia hasn't had any wilderness areas protected in nearly 25 years.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Robert E. DiMichele, Public Affairs Officer of U.S.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday tapped the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Michael Leavitt, to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.
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By Dan Hartzell, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 8--Time may be running out for the relatively low trash-collection bills enjoyed by Upper Macungie Township residents.   At the supervisors meeting Thursday night, Supervisor Chairman Porter E.
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By WILLIAM LAMB, STAFF WRITER  The Record's investigative series into the dumping of toxic paint sludge in Passaic and Bergen counties by the Ford Motor Co. has won the inaugural Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--HICKORY -- Doctors, teachers, trucking company representatives,  environmental specialists and government planners gathered at Lenoir-Rhyne  College on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the region's air quality.