Oklahoma town is toxic waste site
605999
Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the middle of one of the nation's worst environmental nightmares.
506121
Living near a hazardous waste  site containing persistent pollutants such as dioxins,  polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides,  seems to increase the risk of hospitalization for respiratory  infections and asthma in children, a study suggests.
656505
By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 9--ALTUS -- State agriculture officials helped collect more than 62,000 pounds of pesticides this week in an effort to get rid of old, unwanted chemicals.
482409
Up to 14 open-air sites in Ivory Coast's port city of Abidjan have been contaminated by toxic waste, and four trucks that transported the waste are missing, U.N. officials said Friday.
524541
AURORA __ A Beaufort County strip-mining operation that is one of the regions largest employers is asking regulators to allow it to destroy 2,500 acres of wetlands.
768689
A Florida county has grand plans to ditch its dump, generate electricity and help build roads &#151; all by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun.
240628
By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 28--OAK RIDGE -- The K-25 plant is badly deteriorated and thoroughly  contaminated with uranium and a host of other hazardous materials.
271198
Silver Bow Creek, contaminated for more than a century by tailings and other mine waste, appears to be responding to environmental cleanup.
123994
The Blacksmith Institute, a New York-based environment group, makes its annual pick of  the most contaminated cities
385433
By TROY ANDERSON\\ Staff Writer  The controversial Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills will become one of the nation's largest dumps under a plan approved Tuesday by county officials that allows it to stay open for 30 more years and doubles the amount of trash it can take in daily.
625708
By Curtis Killman, Tulsa World, Okla.  Mar. 8--Oklahoma environmental regulators are shortchanging themselves  millions of dollars annually in permit fees levied against large air  polluters, a nonprofit group claims.
39117
By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 5--Three Benton County sites that long have been known to be contaminated are now on a state Department of Ecology list of hazardous sites planned for cleanup.   The Benton City Maintenance Yard, Chevron Chemical Co.
760940
Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
188301
More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
664577
By BRIAN BARBER  Tulsans can dispose of their trash for free Sunday at the local burn plant.   Tom Simpson, president of the Walter B.
83155
By Traci Watson  Never mind solar panels and windmills. Communities across the nation are turning to an unlikely source of clean energy: garbage.
261689
Coal bed methane producers are dumping wastewater that Montana ranchers say can destroy the ability to grow anything.