Port of Benton Turning Ag Waste into Burnable Pellets
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Dec. 14--Two million tons of agriculture waste are generated each year within Benton, Franklin, Yakima and surrounding counties.   Much of the waste is tossed into landfills. Grape waste often is piled up, creating safety concerns.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 1--A local commission went on the record Wednesday night restating its opposition to off-site treatment of wastewater from weapons destruction at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
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By Molly Parker, Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.  Feb. 24--PEORIA -- The hazardous waste landfill in Pottstown moved one  step closer to expansion Friday with a move that could also put an end to  costly and time-consuming litigation.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Mar. 14-- -- A task force recruiting a 1,000-job spent nuclear fuel recycling plant is using a new Web site, speakers' bureau, community meetings and 65,000 color fact sheets to take its case to the public.
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By R. SCOTT RAPPOLD THE GAZETTE  Pueblo Chemical Depot officials are going ahead with building a plant to treat a hazardous mustard waste on-site instead of shipping some of it elsewhere.   The equipment, costing tens of millions of dollars, might never be used, however.
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By Patrick Lester, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 15--The federal government has announced plans for an estimated $19 million cleanup of a Berks County toxic waste site nearly 25 years after a potentially cancer-causing chemical was found in drinking water there.
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By Kathy Kellogg The Ellicottville Planning Board will spend the next few weeks finalizing an environmental impact study and issuing a decision on Laidlaw Energy Group's proposed 7-megawatt biomass electrical generating facility conversion on Route 219.
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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 Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Mar. 7--Barnwell County's love affair with a nuclear waste dump spilled into the Legislature during a hearing Tuesday on the future of a landfill that contributes to the county's economy.
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The Ag Department says it's no cow-pie in the sky dream -- a fiberboard flooring material made from sterilized cow manure could replace sawdust composite boards for building. By the Associated Press.
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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.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 5--BENTON CITY -- A lot of money is riding on a Kennewick Irrigation District proposal to bring more water to Red Mountain.
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There's fuel is waste water. Who knew.
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It all came down to a small, Utah-made device sitting inside an Idaho pottery kiln. This recent experiment at a national research laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, may pave the way for an efficient means of extracting hydrogen from water.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 25--BLOOMINGTON -- A Twin City developer is in hot water over dumping too much silt in a stream in southern McLean County.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Dec. 17--Al Puckett remembers the 1960s when Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant supervisors ordered a worker to bury uranium waste in a gravel pit west of the plant on Saturdays.
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SHELBY, Mont.  -The Canadian operator of a Montana horse feedlot must extinguish a large manure fire that sends a stench over Shelby, the state Department of Environmental Quality said.