Environmental Insider News articles from April 2004

Environmental Insider News archives from April 2004

Hoffman Out at TCEQ!
April 19, 2004... Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Chairman Kathleen Hartnett White on April 19 announced the resignation of Margaret Hoffman as executive director of the agency. Hoffman will remain at the agency as long as necessary to allow...

Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth "Moderate".
April 19, 2004... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its boundary designations for the 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-level ozone, and the news is bad for Austin area residents who desperately wanted Travis and...

Houston Could Have a Solution.
April 19, 2004... The uncertainties surrounding the Houston-Galveston area's nonattainment status, and the area's path toward attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-level ozone, may have diminished a little with the announcement by...

Clean Air Action Plans Could Be Costly.
April 30, 2004... Austin and San Antonio area public officials and environmental groups were left shaking their heads at the end of a TCEQ work session on April 30. What they thought was going to be a slam dunk effort to get new rules in place to bolster their...

Mayor White Comes to Austin.
April 30, 2004... Also at the April 30 work session, Houston Mayor Bill White gave an impassioned (if dry) speech urging the Commission to do whatever it takes to bring the Houston-Galveston area toward attainment of the 1-hour ozone standard and then not to...

Pollution Prevention Advisory Committee.
April 30, 2004... The co-chairs of the Pollution Prevention Advisory Committee also made a presentation at the work session. It seems that the terms of over half of the PPAC's membership have expired, such that only four of the nine voting members and half of...

Surface Water Quality Standards Update.
April 30, 2004... TCEQ, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are hard at work on issues surrounding the section 303(d) list and the surface water quality standards, according to outgoing Executive Director Margaret...

Full House for Energy Panel.
April 30, 2004... Perhaps the most impressive statistic unveiled at the April 27 meeting of the Texas Energy Planning Council was that every single member was present (though a few had to leave thanks to the special session of the Texas Legislature). Nearly as...