Chinese Eye Lake County, Ind., Plastics for Oil
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By Bill Dolan, The Times, Munster, Ind.  Feb. 1--CROWN POINT -- The People's Republic of China is willing to help  Lake County save tax dollars by reducing the cost of garbage recycling.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 19--Last week, Daniel Flaherty had a letter to the editor published complaining that the city of La Crosse doesn't recycle plastic, which is true. However, his letter also said plastic ends up in the landfill, which isn't true.
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By Virginia Hennessey, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 18--The spiraling costs of the Salinas Valley Water Project do not include the millions of dollars the county has paid out for related litigation.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 20--The names and numbers are sobering.   Big Lake, one of the most popular recreation sites in Southcentral Alaska, has measured hydrocarbon pollution near a swimming area at six times the acceptable state level for aquatic life.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 11--With water wells running dry and well contamination reported in some areas, Fresno County is working to secure rights to 5,000 acre-feet of water each year.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep.
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16 spills reported   The country has witnessed 16 oil and chemical spills in the first six months of the year, Lu Xinyuan, the top environmental inspector said at a workshop in Beijing yesterday.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 16--An oil pipeline spill on Feb. 2 in Rusk County -- one of the largest such accidents of its kind in state history -- has been found to have contaminated the local water table, officials confirmed Thursday.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 24--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will accept comments through Saturday on a fund established in connection with fires and odors at a southern Stark County landfill.
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New use for old silicon: Broward County officials are using recycled glass to make sparkling new beach sand. No need to dredge sensitive reefs, either.
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By Dave Downey, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Dec.
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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By Kathy Kellogg  Members of the new Brownfield Opportunity Area Steering Committee were asked Thursday night to become the force behind plans to attract cleanup funding and redevelopment suitors to 500 acres of dormant and contaminated industrial land in north Olean.
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By Michael G. Mooney, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 6--They're not opposed to ethanol, just the way Stanislaus County has "fast-tracked" a proposal to build an ethanol plant in Keyes.
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By TERRY DICKSON  BRUNSWICK -- Glynn County will receive $25 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against the owners of the former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Superfund site in Brunswick.  The county had sued Allied Signal Inc., Honeywell International and Allied Chemical Corp.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb. 14--BIG BEAR LAKE -- City leaders want to study how proposed  regulations on vacation rentals will affect the economy here before they take  action on the issue.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.