Chesapeake pollution fight flagging?
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Billions of dollars have been spent to restore the polluted Chesapeake Bay since the rallying cry "Save The Bay" was plastered on a popular blue-and-white bumper sticker 30 years ago.
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 21--The legal battle over ballast water from oceangoing ships escalated Thursday as eight environmental groups started a lawsuit against shippers under the national Clean Water Act.
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By Dori Berman  Lawmakers hoping to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay have proposed assessing a fee on all new construction to create a dedicated funding source for bay cleanup programs.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 6--The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' approach to cover some of the polluted sediments in the $400 million cleanup of the Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin got support Tuesday from a national, non-partisan scientific panel.
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By Conor Reilly, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 10--RICHMOND -- Lynchburg officials were on Capitol Square on Friday to accept a federal environmental award for the effort to clean up a sewer system that dumps 100 million gallons of raw sewage into the James River annually.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 14--Some people believe that conserving natural resources and protecting the environment are moral issues. An article in Sunday's Messenger-Inquirer written by reporter James Mayse examined that very question.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 10--RICHMOND -- The Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach was officially declared a "no discharge zone" for boat sewage on Friday, a move intended to curb bacteria pollution that plagues the city waterway.
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By Deirdre Fernandes, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--VIRGINIA BEACH -- The city is increasing its stock of historic homes, but concerns about how to best manage them are pitting long time grass-roots activists against each other.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Contaminated sediments in rivers and bays from coast to coast pose an environmental hazard, and while dredging reduces the sediment it doesn't always solve the problem, the National Research Council reported Tuesday.
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By The Associated Press  MORGANTOWN - Opponents of a $1 billion, coal-fired power plant are trying once again to halt the construction, filing a federal lawsuit that claims an air quality permit for the project expired in 2005.  The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S.
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By Nia-Malika Henderson, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 21--Annapolis Mayor Ellen O. Moyer has been named one of the first 50 people nationwide to spread former Vice President Al Gore's global warming message.
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By Francis X. Gilpin, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Jun. 2--Environmentalists hope that next month a seven-member state  commission will reduce the potentially cancer causing chemicals being  discharged into Alabama's waterways.
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The fires set at a development on a wetland in Maryland have highlighted a long and contentious battle over whether the injection of suburban density belonged there.
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By Seattle Times  Feb. 14--Environmental groups are challenging new state stormwater regulations, saying they won't do enough to keep polluted runoff from flowing into the state's rivers, lakes and Puget Sound.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Polita Glynn of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, +1-305-421-4231; Chris Dudley of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, +1-305-456-1625   MIAMI, Feb.
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By Mike Stanton; Journal Staff Writer  As the head of a neighborhood group asks a committee for stiffer penalties for polluters, senators grill state officials about the costs of the lawsuit.