Environmental Insider News articles from January 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from January 1999

From CARE to CAFO's, with EE in Between.
January 14, 1999... The House Interim Committee on Environmental Regulation was very busy during the off-season, thanks to six separate charges handed down by Speaker Pete Laney. All members chose to work together to study the cumulative effects of siting numerous...

Controlling CAFO's, etc.
January 14, 1999... Confined Animal Feeding Operations Over the past 15 years, the number of U.S. hog farms dropped from 600,000 to 157,000 while pork production remained constant; today, 10% of hog farmers produce 90% of the nation's pork products. Today's...

Environmental Legislation.
January 14, 1999... Another bunch of environmental bills have been prefiled for the 76th Legislature to consider, with many more surely to come, including some of the most controversial: * SB 115 (Brown) would repeal the expiration of certain fees imposed by...

Texas Tidbits.
January 14, 1999... *** The House Interim Committee on Land and Resource Management looked at the issue of coastal erosion funding and found that Texas did not receive a single penny out of nearly $110 million in fiscal 1998 federal dollars doled out by the U.S....

Cherry Blossoms.
January 14, 1999... *** According to a survey conducted for the American Lung Association, 69% of Americans would be willing to cough up an extra nickel per gallon of gasoline if the higher priced fuel would cut air emissions from vehicles, and 39% would agree to...

Is Texas Capable of Handling Wastewater Program?
January 28, 1999... Just weeks after Texans began celebrating the culmination of a 25-year battle to win delegation from EPA of the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) wastewater and stormwater permitting program (which in Texas will be...

Lawsuit As Squeeze Play?
January 28, 1999... The lawsuit will likely be seen by many as a ploy to push the Legislature to take seriously TNRCC's requests for beefing up funding of its water programs - which the agency has acknowledged are drastically underfunded. But TNRCC has already...

Funny Business at FWS?
January 28, 1999... According to the National Wilderness Institute, another scandal is about to break in the U.S. Department of the Interior, whose Secretary Bruce Babbitt is already under investigation by an independent counsel for possible perjury in his...

Environmental Legislation.
January 28, 1999... Several environmental bills have by now been referred to Senate committees, including a few which we previewed in earlier issues of EI NEWS. The Special Committee on Border Affairs, for example, will consider a number of bills filed by Sen....

Texas Tidbits.
January 28, 1999... *** EPA and TNRCC on January 15 announced that the former Many Diversified Interest Inc. industrial site in Houston and a closed drinking water well in Perryton have been added to the Superfund National Priority List (NPL). The MDI site,...

Cherry Blossoms.
January 28, 1999... *** Despite an overall increase in sought-after federal spending in the fiscal 2000 budget, President Clinton has actually proposed a decrease in funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, down from $7.6 billion granted (out of $7.8...