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From their trailer in the middle of the desert, Larry and Donna Charpied two-finger typed the first lawsuit they filed to stop Los Angeles County from putting one of the nation's biggest dumps on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park. And won.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.
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Despite some residents' determination to rebuild in La Conchita, Calif., which has had two massive mudslides in the past 10 years, they may not be allowed to do so.
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The Naples region was grappling Thursday with a chronic rubbish disposal problem, with at least 2,000 tonnes of excess garbage piled up outside dumps and in the streets.
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The question of how to treat wastewater in an exclusive California beachfront community is pitting neighbors, surfers and environmentalists against one another.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Feb. 20--HOOD CANAL -- Like knights heading into battle, two dozen people in rubber-coated diving suits and 40-pound air tanks clanked down the gravel beach.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 11--When David Moreno looks around, he sees all the evidence of an illegal dump.
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By TOM ROEDER THE GAZETTE  Ranchers living near Fort Carson's Pion Canyon Maneuver Site have an unlikely ally in their battle to block a massive proposed expansion: peace activists.
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The Navy plans to haul away 13,000 dump-truck loads of polluted soil from an old landfill on Camp Peary. It will be a $5.5 million cleanup project that is expected to last two years.
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Animal advocates who want to protect seals living at a beach sued the city of San Diego on Tuesday, the latest episode in a standoff that's included at least two suspicious seal deaths.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 7--GILROY -- A group of Hecker Pass landowners are dangling $2  million before city leaders in hopes of fast-tracking construction of hundreds  of homes on farmland and hillsides in west Gilroy.
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Neighbors of a South Valley trailer park are fed up with what they say are worrisome activities going on at the park.   They have met with state and county officials and told them loud music, speeding, fighting and annoying activity is ruining their neighborhood.
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 15--SAN FRANCISCO -- Opening of a 3-mile trail into coastal lands north of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant will take an additional six to 12 months to complete because of disagreements over the extent of access.
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By Paul Sisson, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Dec. 8--OCEANSIDE -- County environmental officials say that the soil at  a halted three-home development on Barnwell Street is not dirty enough to pose  a health risk and does not need to be removed.   A letter dated Dec.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 11--Eleven fire departments continued to battle a stubborn blaze near Bard, Calif., on Sunday evening, pitting humans and water against a fire that had been burning since some time Friday.
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It has been two and a half years since Diego Corrales and Joel Casamayor last fought, but time has not healed the wounds of their previous two encounters.