Pollution Fight Pits Illinois vs. BP, Indiana
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WHITING, Ind. -- A proposal to allow BP to greatly increase the amount of pollutants it discharges into Lake Michigan from its refinery here has prompted a bitter war of words between officials in Illinois and Indiana.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- A small Illinois town was chosen as the site of the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-burning plant Tuesday by the public-private alliance carrying out the project. Construction of the plant continues to be delayed, however, by concerns over its costs.
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Nine chlorine plants in the nation pour at least eight tons of mercury into the environment each year &#151; a situation that demands federal action to force companies to convert to cleaner technology, activists said Wednesday.
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BP Plc  said on Tuesday it was working toward settling outstanding safety and health violations at two of its Midwestern refineries.
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By Ian Hoffman; Janis Mara  BERKELEY -- Energy giant BP Amoco PLC and the governors of California and Illinois on Thursday launched the world's first concerted effort here to use biology for producing fuels and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 13--Three environmental groups sued Tuesday to stop a $150 million bridge project, championed by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, that they claim will needlessly degrade a vast natural area on upper Lake Marion.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a project to cut diesel emissions from locomotives at the Ports of Indiana facility in Jeffersonville, Ind., on the Ohio River.
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Environmentalists and citizen groups sued the federal government and Indiana highway commissioner Monday, alleging that the state rigged the process for choosing a route to extend Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to Evansville.
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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Six of the nation's 10 largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions are coal-fired power plants in the South, but year after year Southern lawmakers balk at pushing utilities toward cleaner renewable energy.
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By Meg Kinnard  COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina filed a long-awaited federal lawsuit Thursday that seeks to stop North Carolina from draining millions of gallons of water from a river that provides drinking water and electricity to both states.
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By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 14--The leaky water system at a South Side steel plant, cited by the state for polluting air and water, is so archaic that it still uses hollowed logs as pipes.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.
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Greenhouse gases that spur global warming are on the docket at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that pits environmental groups against the U.S. agency meant to shield Americans from pollution.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 12--Environmentalists won a key victory Monday in their fight to stop water polluted by sugar cane fields from being pumped into Lake Okeechobee.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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ATLANTA _ North and South Carolina are fighting over a river. In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniels whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers. And in Georgia, the governor is praying for rain.