Lawsuit Threat Stops Dirt Dumps on Big Muddy
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  May 29--Side channel projects to restore fish habitat along a stretch of the Missouri River have come to a halt under pressure from the state's Clean Water Commission.   The U.S.
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SHOREHAM, Vermont  - Vermont officials are going   to court and activists are threatening a boycott of the world's   largest forest products company as a battle intensifies over a   plan to burn old tires as fuel in New York state.
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Campaigners threaten the government with legal action after a corruption inquiry is stopped.
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 11--More than a year after Homestead lost a county permit to dig for fill dirt at a city-owned lake, officials have come to an agreement with Miami-Dade to reinstate the permit.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 23--Sediment is still washing into Yellow Creek in Bath Township from a new spring, but the volume might have dropped slightly.   That assessment came Thursday from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
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By Joy L. Woodson, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 21--For almost a year, Northeast Richland homeowner Michael Harvey and owners of a Shumaker Homes development have been at odds over property lines and something no one can live without -- water.
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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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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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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 PETE YOST  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration Monday in an environmental lawsuit, allowing a company to seek recovery of some of its costs for voluntarily cleaning up a hazardous site.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--Removing two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River would flush enough dirt and gravel downstream to fill a million dump trucks.
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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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Milwaukee officials warn that a court order to line a deep tunnel with concrete could cause sewage to dump into the city's rivers and Lake Michigan.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Giant machines have been digging phosphate from the soil of Beaufort County for two generations. Now those who run the huge strip mine near the community of Aurora want to expand operations into 2,500 acres of nearby protected wetlands.
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By Farrish, Jessica  FAYETTEVILLE - A lawsuit filed Oct. 23 in Fayette County Circuit Court to halt Phase I of a controversial plan by Land Resource Co. to develop some of the land overlooking the New River Gorge.
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By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 14--More than $1.3 million from a legal settlement with a pork producer will pay to clean agricultural waste and protect rivers and wildlife in Eastern North Carolina, the state Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday.
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By Todd Hollingshead, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--PROVO -- Some landowners who want out of Pleasant Grove have  taken their case to 4th District Court.    Stanley B.