Environmental Insider News articles from February 2005

Environmental Insider News archives from February 2005

Environmental Insider Goes to Washington.(Book Review)
February 15, 2005... The Texas Environmental Insider trekked back to the scene of many of his early crimes the first week of February (where he cut his teeth working for Uncle Sam). It was surely the right time to go to the nation's capital. President Bush was...

A Washington Snow Job.
February 15, 2005... The chief purpose of this trek to Washington was to join many of the nation's most prominent environmental policy and science experts at the Ronald Wilson Reagan federal office building for the Fifth National Conference on Science Policy and...

Ruckelshaus Makes Chafee-ing Remarks.(EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus speaks in a conference about John H. Chafee )
February 15, 2005... Perhaps the highlight (other than a breakout "interactive discussion about the future" that involved a lot of brainstorming) of the conference was the John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment given by two-time EPA...

Conference Tidbits.(technology in natural disasters prevention)(Brief Article)
February 15, 2005... The primary focus of the rest of the conference was on real-world environmental forecasting approaches. Coming on the heels of the Indian Ocean tsunami, it was easy to admit that an effective warning system would save thousands of lives in...

Bluebonnets.(Texas. Commission on Environmental Quality)
February 15, 2005... Texas Shines in Siemens Competition Three Texans were among the two dozen high school students nationwide selected for the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement based on their scores on the AP math and science exams. The trio ranked in the...

Water Reuse: It's Different for Groundwater.
February 28, 2005... As municipalities have increasingly looked to their effluent as an additional water resource, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Legislature have endeavored to specify and interpret state law related to reuse - the use...

Financial Inability To Pay Finalized.
February 28, 2005... After months of wrangling, and many "no" votes on penalties by Commissioner Larry Soward, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 25 took final action on three remaining items from the enforcement review initiative - time line...

Correcting Our Mistakes!(certificates of convenience and necessity)
February 28, 2005... Way back in January, we wrote an article about builders and utilities squaring off on proposed changes to the process of authorizing certificates of convenience and necessity. Somehow we implied in our PRINT edition that attorney Mark Zeppa had...