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(NY) The New York Times - Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as “zero waste” is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, national parks, restaurants, stadiums and corporations.

(IN) The Post-Tribune - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is forcing the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to rewrite part of the air permit for BP’s Whiting refinery.

(MI) Bay City Times – Consumers Energy Co. is trying to strike a deal with state and federal regulators to build a new power plant on up to 170 acres of coastal wetlands in Bay County, environmental groups contend.

(WI) Green Bay Press Gazette – Environmentalists are scratching their heads and wondering if Rep. Dave Obey has abandoned them.

(ON) The Toronto Star - Ontario’s environment ministry has given its blessing to a massive, controversial $550 million sewage line — known as the “Big Pipe” — that will open the door to billions of dollars worth of new development in the eastern GTA.

(MI) Grand Rapids Press - There is a new prescription for all those unused pills in the medicine cabinet: Incineration.

(MI) The Associated Press – Michigan’s coal-fired power plants will be required to make drastic cuts in mercury emissions under regulations announced Monday.

(MI) Ann Arbor Chronicle - At its Sunday night caucus, Ann Arbor city council members heard from only a couple of residents who actually spoke in favor of keeping Argo Dam in place.

By Sarah Coefield
Oct. 20, 2009
A small group in Bryan, Ohio spent six years securing federal protection for an aquifer that provides water to 385,000 people in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to designate the Michindoh aquifer as the sole source of drinking water for 1,600 square miles.  The designation will include all or part of nine counties in the three states that supply its name.