Volunteers' Use of Landfill Unresolved: Solution Not As Simple As a Letter
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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By Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Sep. 2--HAYNEVILLE -- The group supporting a controversial landfill  recently voted down by the Lowndes County Commission is asking the  commissioners to reconsider their vote.
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An army of volunteers cleared bags of litter from a popular beach during a clean-up drive.   Youngsters to grandparents headed to Saltburn beach on Saturday to take part in the Adopt a Beach event organised by the Marine Conservation Society.
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By Erica Meltzer, Arizona Daily Star  Two area environmental groups have appealed a county decision to renew Brush Ceramic Products' air-quality permit.
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We're being inundated by spam.  How could community-based approaches help?
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By Betsy Gilliland  AIKEN - The city has set aside funding and put a task force in place to preserve open space.  Now officials need to educate the community and themselves about the best way to meet the challenge.
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By Blair Goldstein, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--Twice a month for almost two years, Wayne Morton has met with his neighbors to organize against a dump.
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By Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald  Dec. 14--A 109-acre wasteland of naked dirt and scrubland in the midst of one of Broward County's poorest ZIP codes makes for a better metaphor than a park.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  GRANADA HILLS -- Neighborhood activists worry the merger of two Sunshine Canyon Landfills into a megadump could draw tons of unwanted trash from outside the region if county officials agree to a last-minute request by dump operators.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 24--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will accept comments through Saturday on a fund established in connection with fires and odors at a southern Stark County landfill.
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By Tu-Uyen Tran, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 8--The Strabane Township, N.D., board of supervisors is not in favor of a Grand Forks regional landfill that developers are seeking to build there, according to a board member.
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By Ronnie Moore, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 20--RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Catoosa County commissioners have still reached no decision on the methane gas problem drifting from the closed county landfill, despite about two hours in executive session Tuesday night.
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The Navy plans to haul away 13,000 dump-truck loads of polluted soil from an old landfill on Camp Peary. It will be a $5.5 million cleanup project that is expected to last two years.
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Before volunteers take to streets and neighborhoods this spring, the Kansas PRIDE Program is offering community cleanup workshops.  It isn't necessary to be enrolled in the PRIDE Program to attend, said Connie Hoch, associate PRIDE Program coordinator, who is organizing the free workshops.
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By Molly Parker, Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.  Feb. 24--PEORIA -- The hazardous waste landfill in Pottstown moved one  step closer to expansion Friday with a move that could also put an end to  costly and time-consuming litigation.
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TIRANA, Jul 19 (IPS) - Albania cannot hope to become a major tourist  destination unless it solves its waste management problem. Seeing  this, authorities are wasting no more time in taking action.
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The Bloomington Police Department is beefing up its corps of civilian volunteers who enforce handicapped-parking regulations - something we advocated on this Opinion page a year ago.  We are glad to see Bloomington taking this action and hope many people sign on to help.