Bangor Guard Unit Wins Environmental Award
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By TONI-LYNN ROBBINS; OF THE NEWS STAFF  BANGOR - The Maine Air National Guard's 101st Air Refueling Wing was presented the 2006 U.S. Air Force Gen. Thomas D. White Environmental Quality Award on Thursday morning at the Pentagon.
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By Diana Graettinger, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 21--A Florida company that hopes to develop power from tidal energy  in Cobscook Bay has received a $300,000 development award from the Maine  Technology Institute.   Ocean Renewable Power Co.
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The National Park Service gave Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Superintendent Woody Smeck the Director's Award for Superintendent of the Year for Natural Resource Stewardship, the NPS announced last week.
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The tide is dead low as Diane Cowan lifts seaweed-covered rocks at dawn's first light, something she's done for more than a decade as a way to monitor Maine's most valuable fishery.
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By Tony Henderson Environment Editor  A SEVEN-year project has been set up to protect under-threat wildlife on Northumberland's military training ranges.
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By Aimee Dolloff, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 14--Operating permits for the former Georgia-Pacific Corp. paper mill have been transferred to the facility's new owner, but some area residents are opposing the approval.   The state Department of Environmental Protection on Nov.
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By ROB PAVEY  AUGUSTA, Ga. - Five environmental groups, including Augusta- based Savannah Riverkeeper Inc., asked a federal panel this week for the authority to make official comments involving the proposed expansion of the Vogtle nuclear generating plant.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--BILOXI -- Keesler's contaminated areas received little or no damage from Hurricane Katrina, the base's civilian environmental manager said Tuesday.
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Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it received a prestigious  2007 Business Environmental Award from Acterra, a Bay Area organization,  for demonstrating environmental leadership.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The US Coast Guard has deployed thousands of feet of protective boom to contain a 30,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 16--OVER BRULE LAKE -- At sunset Friday a Minnesota Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter was busy scooping water from a pond and dumping it on the back line of the Famine Lake Fire.
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By Kunitoshi Sakurai  An unusual preliminary environmental survey was conducted recently along the coastal area of Henoko point in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, with the participation of a Maritime Self-Defense Force (SDF) minesweeper tender.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  State legislators have enacted a bill banning a potentially hazardous chemical used in household products and are poised to approve a measure enrolling Maine in a regional compact on climate change.
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PITTSBURGH, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Dominion, sponsors of the Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards Program, are still accepting nominations for the 2007 Environmental Awards, to be presented at the Westin Convention Center Hotel on June 7, 2007.
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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 25--T   he Army Corps of Engineers, the country's construction branch, is better known for dredging and dam projects that serve political needs rather than public safety or environmental needs.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa. May 26--Berks County's environmental defense fund stands to nearly double to $1.45 million because of landfill penalties announced Friday by the state Department of Environmental Protection.