| Monday, Feb 05, 2007 Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau Mon, 05 Feb 2007 4:36 PM PST WASHINGTON - One-time mining giant Asarco, charging that its Mexican owner stole its most valuable asset and left it to face $7 billion worth of environmental and asbestos-related claims, has asked a federal bankruptcy judge to void the transfer of two Peruvian copper mines to Grupo Mexico, S.A. de C.V. |
| Mining town dying as federal buyout continues Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:19 PM PST PICHER, Okla. (AP) - As a funeral home operator, Paul Thomas has buried hundreds of people in his lifetime, but saying the last rites over his home town will be tough. |
| SFO heats up power-saving efforts The San Francisco Examiner Mon, 05 Feb 2007 3:01 AM PST S.F. AIRPORT - One of the area’s biggest energy users is reducing its power bill, one solar panel at a time. |
| Who's Counting: How Iraq Trillion Could Have Been Spent KTRE-TV East Texas Mon, 05 Feb 2007 2:51 AM PST ABC News/Commentary by John Allen Paulos-The price tag for the Iraq War is now estimated at $700 billion in direct costs and perhaps twice that much when indirect expenditures are included. |
| Jacobsville cleanup hearings slated Evansville Courier & Press Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:15 PM PST Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have set two public hearings this week to hear comments on the cleanup options for an Evansville neighborhood contaminated with high levels of lead and arsenic. |
Officials look to future of mill site as cleanup continues
Capital Weekly Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:02 PM PST
AUGUSTA  City officials have a keen interest in the possible reuse of the former American Tissue plant on Maple Street on the east bank of the Kennebec River in Augusta, even as an environmental cleanup there is under way.
