Vieques Remains Explosive Place -- Cleanup is Slow Process at Former U.S. Navy Range
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By Andrew O Selsky Associated Press  VIEQUES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Puerto Rico - One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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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 Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour. That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Navy released a flawed environmental impact statement supporting its decision to build a landing field near Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina.
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By John M.R. Bull AND Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 11--YORKTOWN -- The problems at the Navy's Cheatham Annex are so serious and extensive, federal environmental regulators in 2000 rated the threat to the human food chain at 96.06.
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Hurricane Frances remained a powerful Category 4 storm Sunday as it moved closer to islands in the northern Caribbean, but it was not expected to threaten land for several days.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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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
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By Bill Hanna and R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 25--SEA RIM STATE PARK -- A year after Hurricane Rita slammed into Southeast Texas, little has changed at this state park that sits along the Gulf of Mexico.   The path to the beach is overrun with grass.
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By Frantom, Todd  Spruce-covered mountains located on 5,000 largely forested acres provide radio-transmitting capabilities the Pacific submarine fleet. This "state-of-the-art" site has been one of the Navy's top secrets since the 1950s.
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 24--NORFOLK  -- The Navy released a new environmental study yesterday that supports its plans to build a practice airstrip for its noisy Virginia Beach-based jets in a remote swath of North Carolina.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour.   That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 8--Acres of once empty prairie slowly are being transformed as the northeastern portion of the Pueblo Chemical Depot is being prepared for a $1.7 billion weapons destruction program, which at its peak will employ more than 1,000 people.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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AGUA DULCE, Mexico  - The stench of rotten fish  and gasoline hangs over beached wooden boats and piles of dry  nets in the riverside fishing community of El Muelle on  Mexico's east coast.
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By Seth Freedland, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 12--JAMES CITY -- After Hurricane Isabel, James City County struggled to get reimbursed for debris cleanup on private roads.