YTL Offers to Clean Up Polluted Rivers
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By Rupa Damodaran  YTL Corp Bhd, a diversified group, has submitted a proposal to the Government to clean up polluted rivers at an estimated cost of RM400 million each.  Managing director Tan Sri Francis Yeoh said that this is one- fifth of the cost that has already been proposed.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 6--The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' approach to cover some of the polluted sediments in the $400 million cleanup of the Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin got support Tuesday from a national, non-partisan scientific panel.
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Headwaters is making money with coal trash but also has a nanotech wildcard.
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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 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 The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 4--SOME MAY call it a gizmo, but it has important applications regarding the quality of water in Fountain Creek.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 11--A federal grant will revamp off-road trails at Finger Lakes State Park to keep riders out of a polluted stream on the land.
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More than 500 Tennessee streams are polluted with E. coli bacteria, according to information from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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By Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Sep. 9--Water Missions International, a nonprofit group that provides  portable water-filtering devices to developing nations and disaster areas, is  seeking to tap a new leader.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 11--DURHAM -- Hillsborough officials are looking to Durham as a place where they might buy all the town's drinking water and dispose of its sewage.
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By Kerry Cavanaugh, Daily News, Los Angeles  Feb. 2--To clean up the water, create parks and spur redevelopment along  the Los Angeles River, the city needs a new government authority to take  responsibility for the river revitalization, according to a new city-funded  master plan.
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By Will Elliott  The sweep is on.  Volunteers will be scouring shorelines in a clean-up effort to beautify and make more functional waterways around Western New York.
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Volunteers are being brought in to help clean beaches littered with debris from a grounded cargo ship off the Devon coast.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 11--TRACY -- An environmental group is appealing Tracy's recently approved permit to release more wastewater into the Old River, claiming it will only add to pollution in the fragile San Joaquin Delta ecosystem.
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or wilsonm@courierpress.com  Living Lands & Waters, a nonprofit group dedicated to restoring and beautifying riverbanks, is making a return visit to Evansville.