By Francine Garrone, The Valley News-Dispatch, Tarentum, Pa. Jul. 20--The state Department of Environmental Protection was called to the borough after a fire early Saturday morning caused a waste water treatment plant to spew foam and oil into the Allegheny River, a DEP spokeswoman said.

By Michael Pound, Beaver County Times, Pa. Jul. 15--POTTER TWP. -- The state Department of Environmental Protection has questions about a fire that broke out in a processing station at Horsehead Corp. on Sunday evening.

By Richard Byrne Reilly Construction of the Botanic Garden of Western Pennsylvania at Settler's Cabin Park won't happen this summer. Or the year after that, officials said. "We didn't realize some of the flaws" at the site, said Lindsay Totten, director of Botanic Garden of Western Pennsylvania.

To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Helen Humphreys of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, +1-412-442-4183 LEECHBURG, Pa.,Feb.

By Mary Ann Thomas The federal Environmental Protection Agency will sit in on a planning meeting next month on the cleanup of an Armstrong County nuclear waste dump.