Environmental Insider News articles from January 2002

Environmental Insider News archives from January 2002

Population Scientists Have Wrong Idea.
January 14, 2002... There is a new group of utopians who call themselves the Scientists for Population Reduction. They have their own website - www.scientists4pr.org. SPR, whose listed members include Dr. Bobby J. Presley of the Oceanography Department at Texas A...

NAFTA Panel Says Disaster Looms.
January 14, 2002... The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation - a NAFTA organization - has issued a report entitled "The North American Mosaic: A State of the Environment Report," which tells of a "widespread crisis" due to the continent's...

Brazoria Marches On.
January 14, 2002... Brazoria County Commissioners have agreed to up the ante in their fight against being included in sanctions imposed on counties in the Houston-Galveston ozone nonattainment area. Last year, the county joined Montgomery and Fort Bend Counties in...

Fish Fertility Foiled by Estrogen.
January 14, 2002... A newly released Canadian study has found that women who take birth control pills or hormone therapy are flushing enough hormones down the toilet to make male fish downstream produce eggs. The culprit is synthetic (not natural) estrogen in...

New Problem: Antarctic Cooling.
January 14, 2002... BBC News has reported on the research findings of U.S. scientists who have established that much of Antarctica is cooling - despite earlier research findings that suggested a slight recent warming on the southernmost continent. This cooling is...

A New Theory of Global Warming Politics.
January 26, 2002... The all-out war on science that is the strangest (to old five and dimers like me) of all the tenets of environmental mythology was not that long ago centered on hatred of the element lead - because lead is a killer that must (apparently) be...

New Criteria for Findings Orders.
January 26, 2002... At a January 18 work session. the Commissioners at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TxCEQ - a name we have begun using to get everyone accustomed to it, inasmuch as the new seal at the agenda room has broken the ice for the new...

TxCEQ Gets EPA Award.
January 26, 2002... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as a recipient of the 2001 Clean Air Excellence Award for its use of the MeteoStar monitoring system. The presentation will be made in Washington,...

Cherry Blossoms.
January 26, 2002... ALF Lauds Environmental Crimes [Editor's note: With stories like this one, perhaps we should call this section, which focuses on national environmental stories (the cherry blossom is the environmental symbol for Washington, DC), "Cherry...

Texas Tidbits.
January 26, 2002... Was Conner a Buda Pest? The former director of public works for the city of Buda, Everett Conner, turned himself in to members of the Texas Environmental Enforcement Task Force on January 23 to face criminal charges for an alleged...