Billboards Strike a Nerve: City, County Officials Inundated By E-Mails Due to Signs on Kirker Pass, Highway 4 That Criticize Environmentalists
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By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 1--Billboards along commuter routes in eastern Contra Costa County and a companion Web site calling environmental groups "radicals" have generated several hundred e-mails to local elected leaders.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Northern Bureau  SANTA FE -- Information about a planned tree-thinning project being distributed by a newly formed environmental group has Santa Fe environmentalists in an uproar and city officials accusing the group of scare tactics.
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  Trash is to blame for a political tug-of-war among members of the Salt Lake County Council and the mayor.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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While the crap is beaten out of the housing market Letters Surprisingly, not much has been troubling you this week, but the trawl of the mailbag did uncover one topic that's driven you right round the bend - Tony Blair's latest online petitions website, which this week chalked up more than one million signatories protesting against the mooted introduction of road pricing. Pull over, road rage to follow:â¦
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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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Some say stricter measures endanger wildlife, but others argue those concerns are smokescreens for pro-immigrant sentiment
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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Two weeks before a tight presidential election, tension among bitterly divided voters is translating into a barrage of attacks on political targets that can't talk back -- yard signs.
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By Lee Bloomquist, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 16--SILVER BAY -- As all-terrain vehicle riders traveled along a rocky, dusty trail on the edge of Silver Bay on Friday, they passed signs pointing to the city's AmericInn Lodge & Suites, a restaurant and other lodging.
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By Andrew Villegas, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Mar. 11--The faded blue, yellow and green letters probably lost their meaning long ago, but Mary Sauve could soon be fined for them.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  BANGOR - Two of Maine's largest environmental organizations formally stepped up their opposition campaigns Monday against Plum Creek's development plan for the Moosehead Lake region.
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By PATRICK CONDON MINNETONKA, Minn. - When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.
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The most recent of our numerous skirmishes between forest managers and environmentalists started over the weekend, when fliers appeared at the city's Dale Ball trailheads warning that the city was about to cut down 90 percent of tree cover in the area.
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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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Here is a typical e-mail waiting for Nhan Vu when he arrives at work in the morning, this one from a county official complaining on behalf of a constituent: "[A citizen] called in saying that when she is coming from Hoadley Road & then turning right onto 234 & then turning Left onto Counselor Road....
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Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for &quot;obvious&quot; public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: &quot;Don&#39;t Commit Crime.&quot;