Memphis Firm Reclaims 'Bad Site' in EPA Milestone
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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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Silver Bow Creek, contaminated for more than a century by tailings and other mine waste, appears to be responding to environmental cleanup.
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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 Jeremy Borden jeremy.borden@roanoke.com 981-3340  The construction crews at a Riverside Center building off Jefferson  Street are the first fruit of an intensive effort to get Roanoke's first  large-scale brownfields project off the ground.  Redeveloping a brownfield is not easy.
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After decades of criticism from car owners and environmentalists, the EPA has revised its fuel-mileage estimates for new cars in the U.S.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  MORRIS TOWNSHIP  Aerospace giant Honeywell International Inc. will pay a $500,000 fine for hazardous waste violations at its Aircraft Landing Systems facility in Kingman, Ariz.,  officials said.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--CHAPEL HILL -- Aqua North Carolina water company had a wastewater spill Thursday of an estimated 20,000 gallons from a cracked pipe in Carolina Meadows retirement community.
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When a train crash spilled deadly chlorine gas in Graniteville, S.C., some workers on the graveyard shift at a textile plant ran into the parking lot. It was the wrong strategy.
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By Tania Valdemoro, The Miami Herald  Feb. 12--Nearly six years after an anthrax-laced letter contaminated the former headquarters of tabloid publisher American Media Inc.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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By Joe DePriest, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 12--The city of Mount Holly had a wastewater spill of about 3,600 gallons into the Catawba River on Feb.9.   The spill came from a separated above-ground line behind a residence at 113 Thatcher Place in the Riverfront subdivision.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jan. 30--Federal wildlife officials have halted review of a $110 million water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, effectively sending planners back to the drafting table on a project they considered vital to water quality.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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By Rick Steelhammer  rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com  Plans to relocate the sewage plant serving Pocahontas County's largest development onto the grounds of one of its smallest and oldest tourist stops came a step closer to becoming a reality on Wednesday.
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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 Zachary Gorchow, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 9--State environmental regulators met this week for the first time with the company that has taken over the hazardous waste deep injection wells in Romulus.   RDD Development Corp.