Park Cleanup Date Set: 800 Volunteers Will Be Needed
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--GULFPORT -- She vowed last spring after volunteers cleaned the beach and restored Biloxi Park that the Great American Cleanup would be back, and Friday Gail Cunningham came to Gulfport to kick off the 2007 campaign.
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VOLUNTEERS have helped turn a Merseyside railway station into a wildlife haven.   They spent hours painting, cleaning, weeding and planting hundreds of new flowers, shrubs and climbers at Orrell Park station.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 15--The La Crosse Park Board will consider a proposal tonight that would kick-start plans to convert Myrick Park Zoo and Hixon Forest into an ecopark.
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By MARIA ARMENTAL  Journal Staff Writer  A record 1,800 people haul away about 16,000 pounds of garbage from Rhode Island's waterfront during yesterday's International Coastal Cleanup events.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Dec. 15--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Buoyed by spring-like weather, state transportation officials said Thursday they are moving ahead with environmental cleanup work at Skytop as if the construction season were still on.
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By Kira Millage, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 2--BELLINGHAM -- Time to start yard work. The Clean Green Transfer Facility opens Saturday.
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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Sep. 5--Waco City Council today will discuss its priorities for what  could be millions of dollars in Cameron Park improvements.    The council earlier this year discussed renovating the 416-acre park in  time for its centennial in 2010.
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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 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 JUDY O'ROURKE\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- A local environmental group that is fighting a planned industrial park project in Newhall asked the city Thursday to reconsider a recycling facility that would be the first project built there.
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By Shawntaye Hopkins, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 29--There are signs of improvement in Lexington mobile home parks: sealed skirting, repaired porches and mounds of trash that have been replaced by litter and light debris.
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By Novotney, Steve  WHEELING - After more than five years of proposing, fundraising and generating public support, the Wheeling skatepark project has been placed on schedule for completion by City Manager Robert Herron.
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Volunteers are needed to give Teesside's beaches an autumn clean this Saturday.   Beachwatch events will take place at both Redcar and Saltburn beaches in a bid to keep the sands spick and span.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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By Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 22--A $175 million housing and retail development that's planned for Milwaukee's Park East area will receive a $1.1 million city/federal loan to help with the project's environmental cleanup.