Troubled times for Texas hallucinogen harvesters
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas  - Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote behind his house.
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HELOTES, Tex. -- The smoke comes and goes with the breeze, but some days it blankets Deanna Rodriguez's neighborhood, covering cars in grimy ash and seeping inside homes. Some days, when the wind blows from the south, her house becomes almost uninhabitable.
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By Rebecca Holm, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.
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By Hernndez, Rufo Snchez; Chaparro, Vctor M Ordaz; Valdes, Gerardo Sergio Benedicto; Lpez, David J Palma; Boln, Judith Snchez  Wastes were collected (cocoa husk, sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane filter cake and bovine manure) in Tabasco State, Mxico.
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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Sep. 13--HALLSBURG -- Local leaders Tuesday demanded that state  regulators do more homework before moving forward with the coal-fired power  plant at Tradinghouse Lake east of Waco.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Feb. 19--Possible neighbors of the proposed hog farm in eastern Yuma  County aren't quite ready to accept an animal feeding operation in their  backyard even though the company intends to break ground this week.
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By Bill Luster, The CJ. Meth is further straining Kentucky and Indiana&#39;s underfunded systems for treating drug addicts and alcoholics, according to state officials, treatment advocates and others.
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When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident &#151; maybe carbon monoxide poisoning. When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery.
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- Due to stringent government regulations, the use of landfill and incineration is slowly decreasing, especially in the case of hazardous waste management. However, the concept of producer responsibility is still at nascent stages.
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Between the controversy over drug reimportation and activism from a certain state&#39;s attorney general, it has been a nasty year for the pharmaceutical industry.
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It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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With Maryland's breeding business falling on hard times, places like the Bonita Farm are forced to find other ways to make money on its land.
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By Fred Hiers, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  May 30--OCALA -- Every few days, the Ocala National Forest is marred.  Piles of trash, abandoned boats and cars, leaking batteries and worn out tires  are illegally dumped, scarring the landscape like cancerous tumors.
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FORT WORTH, Texas  - Even in oil-rich Texas, homeowners seldom had companies at the front door asking permission to drill in their back yards -- until recently.