Polluted Howell Land to Be Cleaned
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By Bob Jordan, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 3--HOWELL -- A Lakewood developer has agreed to create a $5 million  fund for the environmental cleanup of the 213-acre Frequency Engineering  Laboratories site it recently acquired.
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By Brittany Dorn, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 24--KILLINGWORTH -- Before this spring, Julie Shepard gave little  thought to the mounds of manure and dirty bedding produced at her horse farm  every day -- except for how best to rid herself of it.
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By Rita Savard, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 23--CHELMSFORD -- Paying high fees for trash removal prompted residents to raise a stink in the past.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 3--BOLIVAR -- Dealing with the problems at Countywide Disposal & Recycling Facility in southern Stark County is the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's No. 1 priority.
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By Will Elliott  The sweep is on.  Volunteers will be scouring shorelines in a clean-up effort to beautify and make more functional waterways around Western New York.
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By Daniel Witter, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 13--Up to 50,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled out of a holding pond at a Yuba County foothills subdivision over the weekend, prompting county officials on Monday to warn downhill residents to test their water.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Mar. 10--The government on Friday announced a $2.6 billion plan to retire almost 200,000 acres of tainted west side farmland and clean up salty water from beneath a swath of surrounding land almost as large.
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By Ryan Burr, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Mar. 6--PANAMA CITY -- Beach water-quality advisories for high levels of bacteria have been posted at Carl Gray Park for 17 weeks since March 2006, making it the most frequently "noticed" beach in Bay County.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 11--TRACY -- An environmental group is appealing Tracy's recently approved permit to release more wastewater into the Old River, claiming it will only add to pollution in the fragile San Joaquin Delta ecosystem.
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By LINDA SPICE  One man's collectibles became his neighbors' nuisance before city officials sought relief through the courts and obtained an order that allowed a mandatory cleanup Thursday of the bicycles, rusty pails and even church windows that covered a weed-infested yard on S. 98th St.
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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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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.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  A cadre of concerned residents and politicians wants to clean up Salt Lake County's air problem now, and they're finding that reaching a solution to such a widespread problem is no easy task.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 24--Sarasota County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program purchased a .22-acre creekside property.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 7--Local leaders are becoming frustrated with the ongoing efforts to devise a plan to clean up ozone in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 8--The health department on Thursday called for Palm Beach County to test for contaminants on a long-delayed golf course under construction west of Boca Raton, a move county officials dismissed as unnecessary.