Environmental Insider News articles from August 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from August 2000

Superconference: Indoor Air Is No Game.
August 14, 2000... It was not just the "hot air" from dozens of speakers at the 12th annual Texas Environmental Superconference that turned the heads of the record 450-plus registrants. University of Texas civil engineering professor Dr. Richard Corsi wowed the...

Indoor Air: A Next Frontier?
August 14, 2000... Despite all this potential on so many fronts, there is little hue and cry among the public or in the political and regulatory sectors for action on indoor air quality (IAQ). Corsi says there is "an immediate need for a massive and effective...

Houston Ozone Bump-Up?
August 14, 2000... The buzz of late is that Houston last year (though not this year) overtook Los Angeles as having the nation's most polluted air - based on the number of exceedances last year of the federal standard for ground-level ozone (smog). But the...

Global Warming Heats Up!
August 14, 2000... Mark your calendars! August 23 - even if it rains - promises to be one of the hottest days of the year. The reason? TNRCC's Commissioners will be taking a look at a petition for rulemaking filed by Public Citizen and several environmental...

EE - Every Texan Benefits.
August 14, 2000... Texas has established a public/private nonprofit partnership to raise money to pay for the development, implementation, and continued operation of environmental education projects, activities, and programs. By taking this innovative approach we...

Texas Tidbits.
August 14, 2000... *** EPA Region 6 has awarded nearly $25,000 in grants for environmental education projects in five Texas cities, including - * $5,273 to American Institute for Learning in Austin for its Community Watershed Education Project. * $5,187...

Busy Work on "Global Warming".
August 28, 2000... Commissioner Ralph Marquez probably had the best take on a new effort, sparked by a petition for rulemaking from Public Citizen and other environmental and public interest groups, under which the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission...

Warming to Warming Fears.
August 28, 2000... Huston's laundry list also included issuance of a report by December 1, 2001 (long after completion of the Houston-Galveston ozone attainment rulemaking, a much higher priority at TNRCC) that will present results of the following initiatives...

Airlines Switch, Others Fight.
August 28, 2000... In the first of a bevy of agreements with major airline companies, Houston-based Continental Airlines on August 9 signed an historic agreed order, now out for 30 days of public comment, that commits the company to 75% reductions in emissions of...

Helping Texas Water Bodies.
August 28, 2000... The Texas Water Development Board has approved research contracts totaling $417,046 for fiscal 2001 environmental studies of Texas bays, estuaries, and in-stream segments potentially affected by future water development projects, as follows:...

Texas Tidbits.
August 28, 2000... *** TNRCC will begin to administer the federal stormwater portion of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program on September 29 at the expiration of EPA's "multi-sector general permit" that for years has set...

Cherry Blossoms.
August 28, 2000... *** Given the focus of both the Gore and Bush campaigns on faith-based solutions to national problems, it seems fitting to note the release by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty of a new book, Environmental Stewardship in...