Environmental Insider News articles from June 2004

Environmental Insider News archives from June 2004

Reality Bites at Superconference.
June 17, 2004... The Texas Environmental Superconference turns Sweet 16 this year, but rather than focus on Molly Ringwald, the Crests, or Neil Sedaka,* Texas environmental attorneys and their co-conspirators will be revisiting reality television. The message...

Brownfields Grants and More.
June 17, 2004... Once again, Texas has come up short in the distribution of federal dollars. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on June 15 announced that communities in 42 states and Puerto Rico will share more than $75 million in EPA Brownfields grants...

Houston Group Gets Environmental Justice Grant.
June 17, 2004... The return of tax dollars to Texas through the EPA also includes $100,000 in an environmental justice grant to Mothers for Clean Air. The Houston-based group will use the money to help understand a southeast Houston community's perception of...

Auto Recyclers Want a Level Playing Field.
June 17, 2004... Back at the May 17 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality work session, stormwater management consultant John Larkin attempted to get the attention of the Commissioners regarding what he considers a real problem in the state - the lack of...

Wastewater Fight in La Joya.
June 17, 2004... At agenda on June 9, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality denied a permit amendment that would have added 80 acres to the sewer certificate of convenience and necessity held by La Joya Water Supply Corporation in Starr County (to make...

Cherry Blossoms.
June 17, 2004... Bjorn Again! The "skeptical environmentalist, " Bjorn Lomborg of Denmark, recently brought nine leading economists - three of them Nobel Prize winners - to Copenhagen to assess which major world challenges should be given the most...

HGB SIP Package.
June 30, 2004... TCEQ on June 23 approved publication and comment on three rules packages, an attainment demonstration, and a rate of progress demonstration as part of a wholesale revamping of the State Implementation Plan for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria...

NAS-NRC Calls for New Water Research.
June 30, 2004... The U.S. needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources in order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced across the nation, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences, National Research...

Propane Powered Forklifts.
June 30, 2004... The Railroad Commission on June 22 approved a $1 million grant program for companies to upgrade their industrial lift trucks and produce significant air quality benefits under the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan. The RRC says that 70% to 80% of...

TCEQ Work Session.
June 30, 2004... Money troubles dominated the conversation at the June 28 TCEQ work session. The Commissioners got a long, hard look at the fiscal 2006-07 biennium Legislative Appropriations Request. The preliminary request begins with figures identical to...

TCEQ PERMITTING ACTIONS.
June 30, 2004... The Oak Ridge Boys Head to Hearing House Environmental Regulations Committee Chair Dennis Bonnen was denied party status in his effort to fight issuance of a new TPDES permit that would authorize the discharge of treated domestic wastewater...

TCEQ REGULATIONS.
June 30, 2004... CAFO Rules (Including for the Bosque) Former Waco Mayor Linda Ethridge and her supporters were not at all happy with a TCEQ rules proposal [Log 2003-026-321-WT] that addressed concentrated animal feeding operations. Newly installed Mayor...

TCEQ ENFORCEMENT.
June 30, 2004... Penalties Cut for Austin Landfills TCEQ approved penalties of $244,420 against Waste Management of Texas, Incorporated, and $28,000 against BFI Waste Systems of North America, Incorporated, to resolve claims of violations at WMI's Austin...

WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD.
June 30, 2004... Senate Bill 1053 Rules The Water Development Board on June 16 adopted rules [at 31 TAC Chapter 367] that codify the new Agricultural Water Conservation Linked Deposit Program, which was authorized by Senate Bill 1053 (78th Legislature,...