Study of How Much Waste Bayous Can Handle is Done After Four Years; Next Step Could Be Cleanup
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By Dee Dixon, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 24--ORANGE -- Adams Bayou, an estuary that runs through Pinehurst, Orange and West Orange, often goes unnoticed by motorists driving along Park Street, Interstate 10 or Texas 105.
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The Mississippi Delta is sinking fast, posing a challenge for the rebuilding of coastal Louisiana after the devastation wrought in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, a study released Sunday confirmed.
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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By Ginger Shepherd  All the Walter B. Hall Resource Recovery Facility - Tulsa's trash- to-energy plant - needs for its operations is 340,000 tons of trash each year.  And the city has been able to provide that much trash - sometimes even more. But supplies may decline.
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The study raises questions of whether environmental standards are strict enough.
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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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Waste center hopes to get rid of debris where water collects and mosquitoes tend to breed. By Diana Lamirand. Recycling junk tires may take a bite out of the local mosquito population.
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By Mary Macdonald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jun. 2--Used to be fixing the sewers, adding sidewalks and getting the  trash picked up on time was enough.    Now cities feel they need to help save the planet.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--BILOXI -- Keesler's contaminated areas received little or no damage from Hurricane Katrina, the base's civilian environmental manager said Tuesday.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  A decade into the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the Santa Susana Field Lab, the Department of Energy has begun consulting with state and federal environmental regulators on decontamination of the site's last buildings.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--RALEIGH -- Human waste trickles out of a rusting single-wide trailer in Oak Hill Estates, draining to a rivulet that flows past children's toys before disappearing into head-high weeds.
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By JOHN ARNOLD Journal Staff Writer  The Environment Department plans to issue a longawaited permit that will regulate hazardous waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Scientists have recently turned to trash in an effort to unearth organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By Patrick Lester, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 15--The federal government has announced plans for an estimated $19 million cleanup of a Berks County toxic waste site nearly 25 years after a potentially cancer-causing chemical was found in drinking water there.
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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to launch its final Sept. 11 contamination cleanup program next month, more than five years after the attacks and following years of criticism that the agency still has not done enough.