EPA plan for Missouri lead waste worries residents; ‘treated like second-class citizens’LEADWOOD, Mo. — For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth. Residents in Leadwood, Mo. fight plan to top heaps of hazardous waste with more wasteLEADWOOD, Mo. — The folks in this aptly named southern Missouri town know full well they’re living amid giant piles of what amounts to hazardous waste. To them, that doesn’t make the logic of trucking in tons of lead-contaminated soil from a neighboring county to cover it up sound any less ridiculous. Turkmenistan starts filling vast lake in the middle of its harsh Karakum desertASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear could unleash an environmental catastrophe. Iraq lashed by sandstorms and drought, dealing blow to hopes for economic recoveryBAGHDAD — Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have left Iraq bone dry for a second straight year, wrecking swaths of farm land, threatening drinking water supplies and intensifying fierce sandstorms that have coated the country in brown dust. Cruise ship spills oil in Norwegian, UNESCO-listed fjordOSLO — Norwegian police say a large amount of oil has leaked from a cruise ship in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Geiranger fjord. Rep. DeGette pursues ‘fracking’ study, pushing bill to regulate the hydraulic drilling processDENVER — U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is moving ahead with her bill to put a widely used oil and gas drilling process under federal oversight while also seeking a study to gather more data on the practice. Washington state tells car washers: Keep your soapy, grimy water from entering storm drainsSEATTLE — It’s one of the great American summer pastimes: Pulling the car onto the driveway on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon, lathering it up with soap, rinsing it off and watching the sudsy water flow toward the storm drain. Stimulus funds will bring clean water to thousands in Indian Country, remote Alaskan villagesFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The road from the Navajo community of Sweetwater to Red Mesa is unpaved and rugged but well traveled. Gloom in Yangon as Myanmar junta’s trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumesYANGON, Myanmar — Along the shores of artificial Inya Lake, the empty compound of Aung San Suu Kyi lies within plain sight as couples stroll the path. Her home also is a curious attraction to onlookers from a hotel a minute’s walk away. Myanmar’s rebuilding in delta reflects some politics a year after the cycloneKYON DA VILLAGE, Myanmar — As the U.N. helicopter skimmed above the placid Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar’s military junta was putting the final touches on its showcase village. Plenty of states going to great depths to monitor groundwater suppliesKINGSTON, N.H. — About a quarter mile into dense woods, geologists watch as a drilling rig twists a shaft deep into the granite bedrock of southeastern New Hampshire. They are searching for water — not to drink — but to watch. Group: world failing to halt biodiversity decline as more corals, amphibians, mammals in perilGENEVA — Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world’s coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. EPA, Dow Chemical resuming negotiations over plans for dioxin cleanup near Midland plantMIDLAND, Mich. — Federal officials are resuming negotiations with Dow Chemical Co. over cleanup of dioxin pollution near the company’s Midland plant. Near site of Ohio’s infamous Cuyahoga River fire, gulls killed and maimed by cooking oil spillCLEVELAND — Hundreds of gulls were killed or maimed in Cleveland after what investigators believe was cooking oil spewed from a sewer pipe into the Cuyahoga (keye-uh-HOH’-guh) River. Did a dangerous chemical at Iraqi plant cause death and illness of soldiers?Larry Roberta’s every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He can’t walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep. Calif. senator sides with oyster farmer over Park Service, environmental activistsWASHINGTON — A powerful Senate Democrat is backing an oyster farmer over the National Park Service in a northern California controversy that has environmentalists seething. China’s environment ministry said review needed for planned dam that threatens Yangtze fishBEIJING — China’s environment ministry said Thursday that it has ordered an ecological assessment for a proposed Yangtze River dam that conservationists fear could threaten hundreds of fish species and drive the giant Chinese sturgeon into extinction. EPA plan targets vast DDT deposit on seafloor off Southern CaliforniaLOS ANGELES — A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday — nearly four decades after the poison was banned from use. FACT CHECK: Obama offers escalating words of concern about the suppression of protests in IranWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama described himself on Tuesday as being “entirely consistent” in his expressions of concern about the disputed Iranian election and the government crackdown that followed street protests. But his language clearly has gotten tougher since his first statement that the suppression of dissent was “of concern to me.” EPA holding hearings on plan to deal with huge DDT deposit on seafloor off Southern CaliforniaLOS ANGELES — The Environmental Protection Agency plans to hold its first public hearing on a proposal targeting a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula. On 40th anniversary of river catching fire, Cleveland celebrates its cleaner watersCLEVELAND — Cleveland is celebrating the rebirth of a river that infamously caught fire 40 years ago. Supreme Court upholds permit to dump waste from Alaska gold mine into lakeWASHINGTON — A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on Monday to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acre lake, although the material will kill all of the lake’s fish. Town welcomes PCB-tainted Hudson River sludge to Texas disposal site; critics fret about waterLUBBOCK, Texas — Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York’s “pay toilet.” Cleanup slogs along 6 months after coal ash sludge sloshed across lakeside community in Tenn.HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Glen Daugherty watches from his wooden dock, just beyond his prized pontoon boat, as a floating dredging machine growls from across the channel of the Emory River. Flood-ravaged ND counties maneuvering FEMA have residents waiting on word of possible buyoutsFARGO, N.D. — Craig and Marcia Strehlow’s 4,400-square-foot dream home had been their sanctuary for 23 years, a wooded paradise in North Dakota river country. But after record-breaking spring floods, they and thousands of others are left wondering: Will the federal government help? Thousands of jobseekers line up for jobs to clean nuke waste at ex-weapons complex in SCBARNWELL, S.C. — Anthony Rivers was laid off from his maintenance job three weeks ago and is willing to do just about anything to rejoin the ranks of the employed in South Carolina — even if that means cleaning up nuclear waste. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad.Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Shrimp industry at low tide: Imports, fuel costs and low prices put bayou way of life in perilBAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Ho Van Le, who trawls in the Gulf of Mexico aboard his 50-foot vessel Star Light, understands the price squeeze facing shrimpers as this year’s season gets under way amid a global recession. Fiscal conservative Sen. Tom Coburn questions 100 stimulus projectsWASHINGTON — Repairs for rural bridges, an under-highway safe crossing for turtles and efforts to protect the sage grouse population are among 100 projects a Republican senator pointed to Monday as questionable federal stimulus spending. Dallas police arrest woman who reported 9-month-old daughter abducted from her homeDALLAS — The mother of a 9-month-old girl who was reported abducted from her home told investigators the baby’s father dumped the infant’s dead body into a lake, according to court documents released Monday. |
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