Groups Seek Status on Vogtle ; Environmentalists Want to Be Granted Ability to Comment
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By Rob Pavey< Staff Writer  Five environmental groups, including Augusta-based Savannah Riverkeeper Inc., asked a federal panel Tuesday for the authority to make official comments involving the proposed expansion of the Vogtle nuclear generating plant.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--Both a state task force last year and the conservation group Environmental Defense this week have drawn similar conclusions about North Carolina's privately owned forests.
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By Paul Burgarino, STAFF WRITER  SAN RAMON -- A boisterous group of residents packed into City Council chambers this week, concerned about the environmental and aesthetic effects of a proposed land-use plan just outside the city's northwest border.
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By ANN SANNER WASHINGTON - Environmental activists, hunters and oil industry representatives spoke at a public hearing Monday night on whether the U.S. government should list polar bears as a threatened species.
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By Hamidah Atan  PUTRAJAYA: Environmental watchdog teams will be set up in all areas soon, with Barisan Nasional elected representatives playing central roles.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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RESIDENTS are invited to have their say on the environment in the next meetings of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's six area environment committees.  They start with an hour-long question and answer segment on issues ranging from community safety to grass cutting.
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U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.
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Environmental groups prepare to lobby a public inquiry into plans to expand airport.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 15--A public right-to-know law that Americans have used since 1984 to track neighborhood pollutants has overwhelming support from the public at large, yet the Bush Administration wants to weaken it, a national watchdog group said yesterday.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 7--In a partial win for environmentalists, Washington's state-owned forestlands could for the first time earn an environmental stamp of approval for logging practices.
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By TOM GALLAGHER  For the record, I will insist that formal discussions about allegations made against me by Mayor Lionel Rivera occur in public and be open to public participation. The issues bear on matters of ethics and values of your elected officials; the people have a right to know.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Journal Staff Writer  Environment New Mexico and other environmental groups called for far-reaching policy changes to address the state's water woes Wednesday.
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Environmental groups are still angry over an assertion made before the Supreme Court a month ago during arguments in a far-reaching clean air lawsuit.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (OneWorld) - Activists and foreign policy experts held a public forum this weekend to launch what they hope will be &quot;a combined international movement&quot; to respond to the threats of climate change and the depletion of oil and other cheap energy sources.
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PARIS -- Forty-five nations answered France's call yesterday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.