Green Future Plotted for Former Dump Help Sought in Park Plan
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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW  LAKE VIEW TERRACE -- For decades, neighbors shut their windows to the hideous smell, dust and noise from the Lopez Canyon Landfill.  Now city officials are asking community members to help plan a park on the former 400-acre dump.
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By John Estus, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--SPENCER -- A waste disposal company's plan to add to a landfill here troubles local officials and residents.
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Israeli government officials have proposed renaming a park to be built on the Jewish state's biggest garbage dump after the comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israeli newspapers reported on Tuesday.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 7--BELLINGHAM -- The Fairhaven Highlands developers will pay a consultant to create an environmental impact statement for the controversial project, a decision developers and the city say will provide transparency.
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By Lisa Smith Daily Herald Staff Writer  Tunes would replace trash at the shuttered Settler's Hill landfill in Geneva under a plan unveiled Tuesday.
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By Jon Chavez, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 18--SUZANNE CLARK knows how to fill a businesses park.
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By Katie N. Johannes, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 21--BELLINGHAM -- A complex of three ball fields, trails and fish habitat will replace 42 acres of dirt mounds, concrete slabs and dilapidated buildings along Squalicum Parkway -- eventually.
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By Nancy A. Fischer  Work to remediate Plateau Park was on the Village Board's agenda Monday.
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Bill and Jean Lane are using a well-established open space conservation  tool in a new way that they hope others may pick up.  Bill Lane, the former publisher of Sunset Magazine and former  U.S.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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LAND Phil, the walking rubbish heap, is the latest recruit in the fight to go green and protect the environment in Birmingham.   Phil was an eye-catching inhabitant of an environmental village built in Victoria Square as part of World Environment Day.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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By RYAN SEALS  The Summerfield Town Council is moving forward to conduct a Phase I environmental study on one of two sites proposed for athletics fields.   The 20--acre site, which sits off U.S.
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By Kathy Kellogg  Members of the new Brownfield Opportunity Area Steering Committee were asked Thursday night to become the force behind plans to attract cleanup funding and redevelopment suitors to 500 acres of dormant and contaminated industrial land in north Olean.
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By Karen Sloan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 11--The site where the crumbling Wintergreen Park Apartments once stood could be transformed into a neighborhood of new homes.
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By Kate Schott, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 13--With about $1.5 million already in the bank from other sources, the organizers of the Myrick Hixon EcoPark now are inviting area residents to contribute to the $4.8 million renovation project in hopes of making it a community effort.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 15--The La Crosse Park Board will consider a proposal tonight that would kick-start plans to convert Myrick Park Zoo and Hixon Forest into an ecopark.