Environmental Insider News articles from January 2001

Environmental Insider News archives from January 2001

AG Sues Exxon Mobil over Hawkins Field.
January 14, 2001... Attorney General John Cornyn has filed a lawsuit seeking an uncertain amount, but reputedly at least "tens of millions of dollars" from oil giant Exxon Mobil Corporation. Cornyn, following on the word of a former oil patch landman in Coleman...

ECOS Has Bold Agenda for EPA.
January 14, 2001... There will be a very different attitude, and even a different structure, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in coming months if the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) has its way. The group, whose members include...

Playa Lakes Are NOT Wetlands.
January 14, 2001... The same five Supreme Court justices who agreed that Florida had run out of time for vote recounts rules on January 9 that the Clean Water Act does not give the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over what is being termed "isolated"...

EPA Clears DFW, BPA SIP Plans.
January 14, 2001... There is some good air quality news for two groups of Texans. EPA has proposed to approve State Implementation Plan updates for those living in the Beaumont-Port Arthur (BPA) and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) ozone nonattainment areas. Written...

Texas Tidbits.
January 14, 2001... Texans Temper Transition Teams TNRCC Executive Director Jeffrey Saitas has been named to President-Elect Bush's Transition Advisory Team on EPA, along with former EPA Administrators William Reilly and William Ruckelshaus; Saitas'...

Cherry Blossoms.
January 14, 2001... Justice Settles With Koch Petroleum The Justice Department and EPA on December 22 announced an environmental settlement with Koch Petroleum Group they say will reduce air emissions from two Corpus Christi refinery and one in Minnesota by...

RRC Fights Recycling Operation It Encouraged.
January 28, 2001... As recently as September 3, 1999, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) informed Osage Environmental, Inc., that its Rozypal Ranch facility in Jim Wells County, which is registered with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission...

Osage Says RRC Lacks Proper Rules.
January 28, 2001... At the Rozypal Ranch facility, Osage recycles non-hazardous oilfield soil cuttings into an asphalt stabilized base. The recycling process, Osage says, mixes incoming waste with native caliche prior to blending with an asphalt emulsion and...

Four Lawsuits Filed Against Houston Clean Air Rules.
January 28, 2001... No one was very surprised last summer when six lawsuits were filed against the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) rules package aimed at bringing the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) ozone non-attainment area into compliance with the...