Environmental Insider News articles from January 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from January 2000

OSHA Strikes a Blow Against Clarity.
January 14, 2000... The Occupational Safety and Health Administration started the New Year off with a bang, announcing it would hold employers of at-home workers to strict ergonomics and other health and safety standards that are required at the company workplace....

Cleaner Air for DFW Area.
January 14, 2000... Texas citizens will have until Valentine's Day the opportunity to voice their opinions regarding the clean air rules package developed by TNRCC staffers in response to both a federal court decision and the looming deadlines for several Texas...

California or Tier 2 Cars?
January 14, 2000... The most onerous of all the proposals is the California low-emission vehicle (CA LEV II) program, which requires a minimum of 10% zero emission vehicles (with flexibility for production of super clean conventionally powered vehicles to...

TDH-BRC Punts to TRAB.
January 14, 2000... Faced with an application by Envirocare of Texas for a Class III radioactive waste storage and processing license for its planned assured isolation low-level radioactive waste management facility in Ward County, the Texas Department of Health's...

Texas Tidbits.
January 14, 2000... *** Friends and enemies of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay (R, Sugar Land) will be either amused or angered at a new website, created by the 501(c)(4) group Friends of the Earth Action to demonize the Majority Whip. Project head Sharon Tucker, of Stafford,...

Koch Settlement Means a Cleaner Texas.
January 28, 2000... After spending nearly a billion dollars on environmental improvements during the past decade, the $35 million that Koch Pipeline Company, LP (an arm of Wichita, Kansas, based Koch Industries Inc., the nation's largest privately held company)...

Koch: The Real Thing!
January 28, 2000... The settlement resolves two federal lawsuits, one brought in April 1995 at the request of EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard and joined in February 1997 by the state of Texas at the request of the General Land Office, and the other filed in July 1997...

OK Water Resources to TX?
January 28, 2000... The Oklahoma Water Resources Board and representatives of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations have expressed interest in working with Texas in determining whether some of their water resources might be made available to help satisfy the future...

Environmental TXcellence.
January 28, 2000... EPA Region 6 on January 13 presented 15 Texas entities with Environmental Excellence awards, annual trophies which recognize and encourage outstanding environmental protection efforts by individuals, nonprofit organizations, companies, and...

A Tale of Two Smelters.
January 28, 2000... At a time when the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Austin American-Statesman, and numerous others are clamoring for the virtual shutdown of operations at Alcoa's lignite coal mine and aluminum smelter that lie north and east of...

Cherry Blossoms.
January 28, 2000... *** World Climate Report, published by New Hope Environmental Services Inc. with funding from Greening Earth Society, will soon merge with The Heartland Institute's Environment News, and the new publication, starting in February, will be dubbed...