Environmental Insider News articles from February 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from February 1999

HAPpy or HAPless Status for Hydrogen Sulfide?
February 14, 1999... Dr. Neil Carman, clean air program director for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Rice University chemistry professor Ronald J. Parry, who doubles as president of the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention, have stirred...

Should H2S Be Listed?
February 14, 1999... Parry's and Carman's letter argues that hydrogen sulfide, called "poison gas" because of its lethal nature, is routinely emitted by at least 73 industry categories, and that a broad range of chronic, adverse health effects are associated with...

Clearing the Air in Texas.
February 14, 1999... A new report issued by the Foundation for Clean Air Progress reveals that Texas, including the metropolitan areas of Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, has made "dramatic" progress in reducing emissions that pollute the air, and will continue that...

Gov. Bush Gets Busy.
February 14, 1999... Texas Governor George W. Bush has been busy appointing people to serve in various capacities of late. On February 16, he reappointed Elizabeth A. Nisbet of Corpus Christi and appointed Dr. William H. Clayton of Galveston to the Coastal...

Cherry Blossoms.
February 14, 1999... *** Now that John Denver is gone, will we also soon lose the opportunity to get a "Colorado Rocky Mountain high" on the ski trails? Just a few months ago, terrorists calling themselves the Environmental Liberation Front burned and vandalized...

Sustainable Development Crusade Goes National.
February 28, 1999... The President's Council on Sustainable Development has announced it will cosponsor a National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America in Detroit and "points across America" on May 2-5. The purpose of the event, cosponsored by the Global...

Environmental Regulations.
February 28, 1999... The House Environmental Regulations Committee has only been given a handful of bills to consider, as of March 1, but some of these - including the controversial House Bill 801 (also known as Senate Bill 402) - had drawn considerable interest,...

Senate Natural Resources.
February 28, 1999... The Senate Natural Resources Committee has been quite busy to date this legislative session, with seven bills, including three that we reported on in our January 28 issue, already through the panel and onto the Senate floor, and a host of...

Border Bills.
February 28, 1999... Responding to the report of the Senate Interim Committee on the North American Free Trade Agreement (see EI NEWS, November 28, 1998), Texas lawmakers have filed several bills, all authored by committee chairman Sen. Carlos Truan (D, Corpus...

Texas Tidbits.
February 28, 1999... *** Beginning this summer, the San Antonio metropolitan area will launch a Clean Fuels Program, using clean-burning, low-Reid vapor pressure and low-sulfur fuels provided by Koch Petroleum Group from the company's Corpus Christi refinery. The...

Cherry Blossoms.
February 28, 1999... *** In concert with its environmental justice and Indian Policy goals, EPA on February 19 announced a final rule it says "insures that Native Americans breathe air as clean as anywhere else in the United States." The majority source affected...