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Volumes are expected to grow to 500 tons a day and 160,000 tons a year, company spokesman Scott Woods said -- nearly a third of the annual total sent to Cherry Island Landfill in east Wilmington. The site, along Christiana...

Indiana’s ranking as the fastest growing state in the nation for wind power growth over the past 24 months recently received another boost. Earlier this month, officials from Horizon Wind Energy, the U.S. subsidiary of EDP Renewables, the world’s fourth...

Chris Malan While researching the possibility of restoring stream flows and fish habitats on Milliken Creek, we found a serious safety issue for people who are living downstream of Milliken Dam. We found that the 110-foot high Milliken Dam, which...

Adopted in 2007, the ordinance requires residents who get a city permit to remove a tree from their property to plant two replacements of "comparable species."...This has been challenged as unreasonable by residents on grounds that replacing towering Monterey pines...

Environmental and health advocates, including the American Lung Association, are pushing a bill that would ban the use of old construction and demolition debris in wood burning power plants. The bill also calls for a study of all proposed wood...

The Daily News, lswitzer@bgdailynews.com /783-3240 Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:02 AM CST With volatile oil prices and stricter climate control regulations on the horizon, America’s small farms are facing an energy squeeze at a time when they are already fighting...

The Washington State Department of Health has lifted the boil water advisory placed on Vader and Enchanted Valley last week when water pipes burst and a failed control system at the water treatment plant caused the water to become contaminated....

21 p.m. on Lakeville Highway, occurred after a car ran the signal at the busy intersection and struck a second vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol. "Initial reports at the scene were that a vehicle traveling at high speed...

Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.