Andreason Introduces Bill to Protect Water From Mining Pollutants
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise Feb. 11--Atlanta Gold Corp. has struggled to treat arsenic-laced water leaking from an old mine near Atlanta, where it hopes it may someday mine. It's a problem across the American West.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--MORE PEOPLE are starting to take seriously the problems of water quality in the Arkansas River.   The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill addressing water quality in cases where water is transferred from one use to another, and Gov.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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By Sanne Specht, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Mar. 1--Opponents of the Opp Mine painted a picture of environmental  pollution, property destruction and community demise for Jackson County  commissioners on Wednesday.    More than 75 people attended the three-hour public hearing.
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By Xie Chuanjiao  One of Gansu Party Secretary Lu Hao's main priorities is to help millions of residents of his province gain access to safe drinking water.
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By Jim Myers, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 8--WASHINGTON -- A new federal rule will encourage commercial uses of chat and further the removal of more of the mining waste from the Tar Creek Superfund site, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 19--City government leaders plan to develop an inventory of the community's natural resources to protect the most valuable from development.
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The Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan Monday for removing the Milltown Dam in Montana and cleaning up mine tailings tainted with arsenic, copper, lead and zinc that
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  May 24--The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources must start work on statewide regulations for new construction along Minnesota lakes and rivers under orders from the Minnesota Legislature.
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By MICHAEL OLIVEIRA  TORONTO (CP) - Legislation to protect Great Lakes water from being siphoned to jurisdictions not immediately surrounding the lakes is being finalized by Ontario, Quebec and eight U.S. states.  Still, environmental advocates warn that the Great Lakes-St.
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By Daniel Kelley, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--MARISSA -- A Peabody Energy proposal to reopen a surface mine and use adjacent land as a burnt coal landfill outside Marissa has drawn concern from nearby residents and praise from the business community.
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By Wan Hamidi Hamid; Arman Ahmad; Eileen Ng  THE over-issuance of mining licences by the Kelantan government has led to pollution of the Sungai Kelantan. Deputy Natural Resources and Environment minister Datuk S.
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A George Mason University chemistry professor has won a $1 million engineering prize for developing a simple and inexpensive means of filtering arsenic from well water, an advance that is already preventing serious health problems in hundreds of thousands of people in his native Bangladesh and could...
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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By Charles Ashby, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 24--DENVER -- A bill to strip governments' ability to take water rights through eminent domain squeaked through the House on a preliminary vote Friday.   Freshman Rep.
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By Jared Page Deseret Morning News  The "back-up plan" to get a sewage-treatment plant built in Riverton is moving forward at the state Legislature.
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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.