Farmers Discuss Waste Water: Quality Control Board Holds Meeting on New Rules Affecting Dairies.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--Dairy farmer Eric Westra told state regulators Wednesday he has good reasons for complying with potentially expensive new water rules.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Feb. 14--JEROME -- County commissioners are planning a dairy symposium at the College of Southern Idaho sometime in March.
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The rules controlling the trade in many animal and plant species may change as delegates from around the world meet in Thailand.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--HICKORY -- Doctors, teachers, trucking company representatives,  environmental specialists and government planners gathered at Lenoir-Rhyne  College on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the region's air quality.
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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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By Jackie Burke, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Dec. 9--Aberdeen officials are working with area landowners to help improve water quality in Elm Lake and its watershed.
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WASHINGTON -- The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don't have to follow them.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 9--Proposed ways of protecting farming in Stanislaus County will go before the public Tuesday and Sept. 18. County officials have drafted revisions to the agricultural element of the general plan.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 22--Speakers at the Colorado Agricultural Outlook Forum Wednesday in Denver offered varying ideas for farmers to make their operations more environmentally friendly.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.
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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.
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Environmental authorities set up Wednesday a temporary restriction zone around a farm in west central England because of a new suspected case of foot and mouth disease.
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A decision by the UK's leading organic body to license salmon farms sparks concerns its standards are slipping.
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RICHMOND, Dec. 14 -- The Virginia Health Department announced this week that it has adopted more stringent standards for evaluating how much PCB contamination is acceptable in fish caught locally for human consumption.
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Environmental officials visit poultry farmers within control zone around Dorset swannery
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Southern California's smog-fighting agency went after emissions of the bovine variety Friday, adopting the nation's first rules to reduce air pollution from dairy cow manure.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jun. 26--GOODING -- More than a year has passed since officials in Gooding County began to draft new regulations for one of the nation's most prolific milk-producing communities. Late last week those rules finally became law.