County Withholds Grant From Plant Cited for Pollution
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By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 14--The leaky water system at a South Side steel plant, cited by the state for polluting air and water, is so archaic that it still uses hollowed logs as pipes.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 24--The city of Rock Hill withdrew a lawsuit against York County on Friday -- a day after a state agency permitted a controversial landfill in the city that was at the heart of the legal fight.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Dec. 18--Boo to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control for declining recently to punish the Horry County Solid Waste Authority for flouting environmental law.
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Under a rarely used provision of Georgia's Greenspace Act, a developer  has asked that 6.5 acres of Columbia County land purchased with state funds  as permanent greenspace be released for development.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 3--An influx of cash was the sort of green revolution Debbie White needed when the Augusta County Service Authority sought to modernize its sewage-treatment system.
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By THOMAS RYLL, Columbian staff writer  With reluctance, and a certain amount of lamenting that there's no decent fancy restaurant in that corner of the county, commissioners on Tuesday extended for another  year a development ban in the Salmon Creek area.
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Sacramento -- Controller Steve Westly concluded Tuesday that government oversight of legislative grants to nonprofit groups and local agencies has been inconsistent or nonexistent and ordered that $15 million in unspent money be returned to the state&#39;s
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By JULIAN WALKER  A developer will be allowed to destroy some wetlands and streams in Chesterfield County to make way for a road extension to a planned mixed-use development.  The decision came yesterday from the State Water Control Board, which reversed a previous decision.
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By TERRY DICKSON  BRUNSWICK -- Glynn County will receive $25 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against the owners of the former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Superfund site in Brunswick.  The county had sued Allied Signal Inc., Honeywell International and Allied Chemical Corp.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 21--The Imperial Irrigation and Drainage District board declared that there is an insufficient water supply to maintain the current level of use in Imperial County in 2008.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 7--The water agency serving the northern edge of Monterey County and south Santa Cruz County will ask the state Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court ruling that threatens to cut off a major source of district funding.
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By Patrick Lester, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 15--The federal government has announced plans for an estimated $19 million cleanup of a Berks County toxic waste site nearly 25 years after a potentially cancer-causing chemical was found in drinking water there.
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By Anthony Mccartney, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 7--TAMPA -- Facing a standing-room-only crowd, county commissioners postponed a decision Wednesday on an ordinance that independent trash haulers say would put them out of business.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  PROVO -- Utah County officials may allow a gravel-pit company to keep digging in an area that isn't zoned for industrial use -- but not if the neighbors can help it.
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The assembly government is taking court action to recover a grant from a dairy firm, which closed its plant last year.
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One of California's rarest plants was nearly wiped out of existence when Marin County workers used a backhoe to clear a plugged roadside drain in the species' sole habitat.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr.; Journal Staff Writer  The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a "superseding order" that overrules the town Conservation Commission's rejection of a plan by Weaver's Cove.