Environmental Insider News articles from December 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from December 1999

Year 2000 - The Environmental Presidential Campaign?
December 14, 1999... It may fizzle as an issue during next year's Presidential elections, but if the Sierra Club and other national environmental organizations get their Christmas wishes, the year 2000 will be the Campaign of the Millennium, pitting "the Polluters'...

Green Politics 2000.
December 14, 1999... The Vice President is not the only politician who believes Gov. Bush may be vulnerable on environmental issues. Sen. McCain has pledged to make major policy addresses regarding the environment, based on his belief that "the environment may be...

TEEP Fund Board Named.
December 14, 1999... The Texas Environmental Education Partnership (TEEP) Fund Board will hold its organizational meeting on December 20, according to Rep. Warren Chisum (R, Pampa), author of the legislation creating the new entity and the ex officio member of the...

Envirocare Seek Answers.
December 14, 1999... Envirocare of Texas will meet with Texas Department of Health officials on December 16 to discuss various questions arising from the filing by the company on November 23 of a license application for a long-term assured isolation storage...

Tanker Collision Nets Big $$.
December 14, 1999... Back on September 5, 1995, two Norwegian tankers, the Berge Banker and the Skaubay, owned and operated by Bulk Transport LTD of Bermuda and SPT Marine Inc., respectively, collided in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing to transfer fuel oil,...

Texas Tidbits.
December 14, 1999... *** Accountant Robert W. Lambert of Horseshoe Bay is the latest appointee to the Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors. Lambert, whose term will expire in 2005, spent 30 years with KPMG Peat Marwick, retiring in 1998, and is now an...

Cherry Blossoms.
December 14, 1999... *** Those who thought that new Senate Environment Committee chairman Sen. Bob Smith (R, New Hampshire) might be soft on the environment got a jolt recently, as Sen. Smith on December 9 announced his opposition to any legislative relief for the...

Forty Million by 2050, Says Water Development Board.
December 28, 1999... By the year 2050, the Texas will have doubled again, to 39,617,390 residents, placing an even greater burden on state water resources than had been predicted in the 1997 State Water Plan, Texas Water Development Board officials announced on...

Laney Sets Interim Charges.
December 28, 1999... House Speaker Rep. Pete Laney gave his committee chairs an early Christmas present by announcing interim charges to be studied and reported on to the 77th Legislature, which will convene in January 2001, kicking off the 21st Century. Of special...

Coalition Claims Shutout.
December 28, 1999... According to a new report from the Texas Clean Air Crisis Campaign, the vast majority of Texas citizens who seek to have a hearing regarding a pollution permit in their community are being denied a hearing, and the few who do get a hearing find...

Border Hazardous Wastes.
December 28, 1999... Under a binational "consultative mechanism" announced on December 23, the U.S. and Mexico will publicly disclose information regarding all existing and proposed hazardous or radioactive waste sites within 100 km of the border. The agreement...

Texas Tidbits.
December 28, 1999... *** Joe Beal is the unanimous choice of the Lower Colorado River Authority's board of directors to replace next-door neighbor Mark Rose as the utility's general manager. Beal, who currently heads LCRA subsidiary Waterco, will move to his new...

Cherry Blossoms.
December 28, 1999... *** Despite the fact that National Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Joan Brown Campbell has called the issue of global warming and support for the Kyoto Protocol "a litmus test for the faith community," the well-funded effort by the...