Council Amends Litter Ordinance
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By KEVIN BLANCHARD  LAFAYETTE - The City-Parish Council tweaked an ordinance Tuesday enacted last year that allows residents to report litterbugs to the authorities to resolve some gray areas.
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By Andy Meinen, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 9--A nearly month-old statewide burn ban on yard debris was lifted Friday, but a Bay County ordinance still prohibits burning yard waste here.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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By Betsy Gilliland  AIKEN - The city has set aside funding and put a task force in place to preserve open space.  Now officials need to educate the community and themselves about the best way to meet the challenge.
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By Marcella Peyre-ferry  Correspondent           Bart Township supervisors at their June meeting approved an amendment to the holding-tank ordinance that will allow microflush toilets in homes without electricity.
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By KAREN GOULART  A Kingston resident whose property was declared a hazardous waste site by the state Department of Environmental Protection this week wants neighbors to know he is doing all he can to quickly correct the problems.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 4--As the viewpoints expressed elsewhere on this page show, not everyone believes a public intoxication ordinance would be a good idea for La Crosse.
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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM  HAZLETON, Pa. - The City Council gave tentative approval Friday to an overhaul of an anti-illegal-immigration law considered to be one of the nation's toughest, hoping to put the measure on sounder legal footing.
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By From staff reports  The City Council's housing panel is retooling a proposal to make apart-ment inspections more effective.  The city had considered reinstating regular inspections with a yearly licensing program funded by fees.
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By JOHN CASTELLUCCI  Journal Staff Writer  The controversial proposals have already been sent back to the Ordinance Committee    for revision.
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By Chelsea Phua, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--A new sign-posting ordinance will give Sacramento County residents early notice of development projects proposed in their neighborhoods, county officials said.
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By BILL TROTTER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  BAR HARBOR - Having decided in recent years not to fully engage in the Maine Healthy Beaches program, the local town council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of participating in the organization's pollution monitoring and notification system.
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Mayor Anthony Williams (website - news - bio) says the city has returned to a bad habit of not honoring its commitments. He says he made the agreement with the council and baseball to cut this deal.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 18--MANTECA -- Apartment dwellers: Step out to your communal garbage bin and take a look inside.   Ninety percent of what has been dumped there, according to city officials, could have been recycled.
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By Randal Edgar; Journal Staff Writer  NARRAGANSETT - South Kingstown might be looking to go with a single company to pick up trash and recyclables, but members of the Narragansett Town Council made it clear last night that they want to keep working with the little guys.
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By Erica Meltzer, Arizona Daily Star  Two area environmental groups have appealed a county decision to renew Brush Ceramic Products' air-quality permit.
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By Mike Torralba, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 24--MONROE -- Starting this week, the city will temporarily change how it disinfects its drinking water.   The N.C.