Environmental Insider News articles from August 2003

Environmental Insider News archives from August 2003

Will Democrats Flee Washington, Too?
August 14, 2003... Just about everyone has by now heard the news that President Bush plans to submit the name of Utah Governor Mike Leavitt as his nominee to replace former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental...

CFACT Brings Fresh, Provocative Environmental Voice.
August 14, 2003... College students and environmental activism. They go together like football games and cheerleaders, dorm rooms and empty pizza boxes, or all-night cram sessions and final exams. But what about when those campus eco-activists are promoting...

Three Irrigator Advisors Named.
August 14, 2003... The Texas Irrigator Advisory Council for Landscape Irrigation has three new members, thanks to action at the August 5 TCEQ agenda. The Council, which consists of six licensed irrigator members who represent the industry and three public...

Cherry Blossoms.
August 14, 2003... CEI Files Climate Change Lawsuit In yet another attempt to draw attention to the flaws in global warming theory, the Competitive Enterprise Institute on August 7 filed suit in federal court demanding that the Bush Administration stop...

Bluebonnets.
August 14, 2003... Groten Wins Innovation Award Austin attorney Eric Groten, a partner at Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, has been named among the state's leading innovators by De Novo magazine in recognition of his "groundbreaking work" on behalf of El Paso...

Huston Out, Soward Waits in Wings.
August 28, 2003... UPDATE! We finally got hold of Larry Soward and learned that, thanks to state retirement law, he could not begin working at TCEQ until October 1 anyway - so there appears to be plenty of time for him to get together with Sen. Barrientos, even...

Global Warming Policy - Bad Economics?
August 28, 2003... According to a newly released report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (in its Economic & Financial Policy Review, V. 2, No. 1, August 20, 2003), inefficiencies in post- Kyoto global warming policy could result in worldwide...

Hye Time in Lakewood Ridge.
August 28, 2003... Marilyn and Pieter Hye have lived in Texas for 20 years, and they are tired of not having reliable public water service to their upscale home in the Lakewood Ridge subdivision in southern Denton County. At the August 22 work session before the...

Cherry Blossoms.
August 28, 2003... Fabricant Quits EPA Yet another official with close ties to former EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has announced his departure from the agency. General Counsel Robert E. Fabricant, who had been Governor Whitman's Chief Counsel, has...

Bluebonnets.
August 28, 2003... Red/Canadian Rivers Salt Water Project Ends Railroad Commission Chairman Michael L. Williams on August 25 announced the completion of a 3-year well plugging effort, dubbed the Red/Canadian Rivers Salt Water Minimization Project, which was...