Environmental Insider News articles from July 2002

Environmental Insider News archives from July 2002

The Austin Parking Card Mystery.
July 12, 2002... Have you ever been in downtown Austin and needed a place to park, found one, and then realized you had run out of change? Then you look closely at the parking meter and notice there is a slot for some kind of plastic card (you suppose), and...

HRO's Low-Level Radioactive Waste Report.
July 12, 2002... The Texas House Research Organization has released a new report, "Low-Level Radioactive Waste: Beyond Sierra Blanca," which notes that the state has yet to establish a facility for disposing of low-level radioactive waste generated by nuclear...

World Wildlife Fund Report: RIP, Earth?
July 12, 2002... "It's the end of the world as we know it - but I feel fine," because I own stock in the space travel industry? The World Wildlife Fund has issued its "Living Planet Report 2002,"which states that,"It is very unlikely that the Earth would be...

EPA Touts Clear Skies.
July 12, 2002... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on July 1 released new analytical data that purportedly show that every part of the nation where power plants contribute significantly to air pollution will see vast improvements in air quality as a...

Cherry Blossoms.
July 12, 2002... Global Warming Good for Plants? Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are testing the possibility that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, said to increase global warming, could also reduce global warming by...

Bluebonnets.
July 12, 2002... Matthews Named to Pipeline Panel Railroad Commissioner Charles Matthews has yet another job for the American people. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has appointed Matthews to serve on the Technical Pipeline Safety Standards...

Ships, Courts Hurt Houston Clean Air Fight.
July 26, 2002... The perilous effort being conducted by state and local officials to enable the eight-county Houston-Galveston metropolitan area to attain the 1-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-level ozone by November 2007 is facing severe...

PODER Leaders in Line for Big Money Award.
July 26, 2002... Leadership for a Changing World, a program of the Ford Foundation in partnership with the Advocacy Institute and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, has named Susana Almanza and Sylvia Herrera as...

Tanknology-NDE Cops Guilty Pleas.
July 26, 2002... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department have announced that Austin-based Tanknology-NDE, International, Inc., has agreed to plead guilty to 10 felony counts of presenting false claims and making false statements to...

Cherry Blossoms.
July 26, 2002... TCEQ Hosts EMS Local Resource Center The Small Business and Environmental Assistance Division of Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is one of eight entities chosen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to operate one of...

Bluebonnets.
July 26, 2002... Huston Pushes Emissions Testing in San Antonio TCEQ Presiding Officer Robert Huston told county commissioners in Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, and Wilson Counties as well as city councils in San Antonio, New Braunfels, Seguin, and Floresville...