Environmental Insider News articles from April 2001

Environmental Insider News archives from April 2001

Koch Enriches Texas - Again!
April 14, 2001... For the second time in a little more than a year, a member company in the Koch Industries family has found a way to enrich the state of Texas as a major part of the settlement of an environmental enforcement action. In January 2000, Koch...

Texas Counties in a Big Ozone Hole.
April 14, 2001... Recent rumblings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggest that several east and central Texas counties, which were only weeks ago fearing the hammer of federal sanctions following their likely designation as non-attainment...

Cato: Seek Independent Cost-Benefit Analysis.
April 14, 2001... A new report by the Cato Institute asserts that having the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) perform its own cost-benefit analysis is tantamount to having the fox guard the henhouse. "Government studies of regulations designed to...

Texas Tidbits.
April 14, 2001... Texas A&M Wins IPM Grant The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a grant to Texas A & M University to establish Technical Resource Centers for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - which is an approach to pest control that relies...

Cherry Blossoms.
April 14, 2001... Sansonetti Picked for Justice Post President George W. Bush has announced his intention to nominate Thomas L. Sansonetti, currently a partner with the Cheyenne, Wyoming, law firm of Holland and Hart, as Assistant Attorney General for the...

Two Legislative Fixes for Clean Air Investments.
April 28, 2001... Lawmakers at two levels are working hard to help Texas industrial facilities with the costs of new air pollution control equipment that is being virtually mandated by Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) under its plan for...

Cornyn Affirms Broad Prop 2 Tax Exemption.
April 28, 2001... Late in the day on April 27, Attorney General John Cornyn issued a letter opinion that reaffirms a very broad definition of what pollution control property is entitled to a tax exemption under section 11.31 of the Tax Code (as authorized by...

A TAD Too Little ? Well, Maybe Not!
April 28, 2001... The Texas Association of Dairymen (TAD) is not going down without a fight in the Bosque war zone. On April 19 state district judge Paul Davis tossed out a recently merged lawsuit in which TAD and the city of Waco had filed separate complaints...

Williams Hosts Transportation Panel.
April 28, 2001... Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams had decided to dispel the widespread perception that his agency has little to do with rail transportation, so he got two of his counterparts together - TNRCC Chairman Robert Huston and Texas...