Coking Plant May Receive Legal Boost Plan Targets Permit Hurdle
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 10--THE PROPOSED FDS COKE PLANT -- now touted as an $800 million project for East Toledo and Oregon -- could be back on the same path it was before June 1 if Gov. Ted Strickland gets his way.
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By Neil Gonzales  REDWOOD CITY -- A group of residents plans to challenge the city's decision to grant key approvals supporting the addition of a gas station as part of a Costco expansion project at Middlefield Road and Charter Street.
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The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.
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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- The United Auto Workers and Chrysler LLC got a big boost from some Detroit-area plants that voted in favor of a new labor contract, but the road to ratification is still a bumpy one with thousands more workers scheduled to cast ballots in the next few days.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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Russia's state environmental agency has said it had launched a legal challenge to work at Sakhalin-2, a massive oil and gas project led by British group Shell, as efforts continued by state-owned Gazprom to obtain a stake in the project.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Jun. 19--LUCERNE VALLEY -- New regulations on greenhouse gases that were passed by the state legislature last fall created a problem for local cement plants, one they now hope to turn into a profit.
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Environmental officials believe progress is being made against an invasive weed found in a northern Indiana, though more chemicals will likely need to be applied.
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WASHINGTON -- Robert Stec would like to help clean up the nation's dirty air, but at $1 million a plant to install air-pollution control technology, it would be cheaper for him to move his furniture manufacturing business overseas.
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Maryland lawmakers began to consider a proposal yesterday for one of the nation's most ambitious sets of controls on carbon dioxide emissions, as the state seeks to be a leader in the effort to curb the gases that contribute to global warming.
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By VICKI SMITH  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 Helen Logan  The new owner of a large part of Teesside's chemical industry has revealed it may invest pounds 200m locally in a new plant.   Paul Booth, president of SABIC UK Petrochemicals, unveiled the plans at a key industry briefing held in the Tees Valley.
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WHEEZE: Mayors and economic development officials say a growing number of businesses are not inclined to expand or open new plants in areas cited by the Environmental Protection Agency as "non-attainment zones," with too much smog-causing ozone or microscopic soot.
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By Bangkok Post, Thailand  Jun. 8--The oil refiner and petrochemical manufacturer IRPC must improve  pollution controls within its industrial zone to the levels of factories  located within Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong by next March.
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By Andy Paras, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 7--MONCKS CORNER -- The Berkeley County Planning Commission held off  on granting a zoning request to a Ross Perot Jr.-led company Tuesday because  of concerns about the impact its massive industrial project would have on  traffic.
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THE Government&#39;s plans for a partial ban on smoking in public places seems to have fallen far short of what has been proposed by Liverpool City Council.
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By Tiffany Martin  A lawyer for a Cambridge sand quarry wanting to set up a a large composting facility says it is significant that health authorities have not opposed the scheme.