Crews Test Last of EGF's Dike Closures
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By Tu-Uyen Tran, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 23--Construction crews tested the last of East Grand Forks' dike closures Thursday to ensure that it's ready for the next flood fight.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 9--FORT EDWARD -- The long-delayed cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson River at Fort Edward is being pushed back from summer 2008 until spring 2009, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  Before the space shut
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Rescue and cleanup crews are racing to an isolated island in Alaska&#39;s Aleutian chain to hunt for six missing seamen and begin assessing environmental damage from a grounded freighter that broke apart last night on rocky, wildlife-rich shores and started
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 18--Pierce County is closing in on the last two properties that would put the South Prairie-to-Buckley segment of the Foothills Trail into public ownership.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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By Dean Narciso, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--A levee built as a short-term fix to protect a limestone quarry from flooding left a generation of potential problems for the Big Darby Creek.
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By Bob Fliss, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Sep. 22--Aside from a mixed bag of regulatory inspections, the marina  renovations at Fishermen's Village are nearly complete.
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State officials Tuesday ended all work at a bridge construction yard after sinking &#36;58 million into a project halted by the ongoing discovery of hundreds of Indian remains and ancient artifacts.
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Firefighters racing the weather for control of a turbulent wildfire near this popular resort got a bit of a break Wednesday as high winds forecast to arrive by early afternoon held off, giving crews time to shore up their defenses.
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The lake-effect squalls that have buried parts of upstate New York in nearly 12 feet of snow finally ended Monday, leaving road crews with the task of clearing snow piled as high as street signs.
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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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The last vestige of the U.S. military in the heart of Frankfurt, Germany, draws to a close Thursday.
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By The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 24--The Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge visitor's center and offices will close Monday to start repairs from Hurricane Rita.
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Downriver economic development officials geared up Thursday to deal with the latest blow to area manufacturing workers, the closing of the Frito-Lay plant in Allen Park with its loss of nearly 400 jobs.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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The owner-workers of Wales' last deep mine meet to decide when it should close for the final time.