Environmental Insider News articles from March 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from March 1999

Environmental Education Bill Surfaces.
March 14, 1999... Those concerned about the future of environmental education in Texas should take heart at the announcement that Rep. Warren Chisum (R, Pampa) has filed House Bill 2249, which creates the Texas Environmental Education Partnership Fund and the...

House Natural Resources.
March 14, 1999... The House Natural Resources Commit-tee has been asked to deal with a host of bills affecting individual water districts, as well as a number that would affect a broader universe in Texas. A few bills, as of March 10, had won committee approval,...

Senate Natural Resources.
March 14, 1999... Another bevy of bills was dumped into the lap of the Senate Natural Resources Committee in March, including many bills which duplicate existing House bills and others which may not have House counterparts, as follows: * SB 766 (Brown)...

Legislative Miscellany.
March 14, 1999... A host of bills with environmental import are under consideration by a wide variety of House and Senate panels. Two of the bills being reviewed by the House Urban Affairs Committee are of special interest: * HB 247 (Puente, D, San Antonio)...

AG Sacks Waste Import Ban.
March 14, 1999... In response to a request from former TNRCC Chairman Barry McBee, Attorney General John Cornyn on March 10 ruled [Opinion JC-0017] that section 361.0235 of the Health and Safety Code, which bans the importation into Texas of hazardous waste...

Good News for Motorists.
March 14, 1999... Three recent announcements all provide good news for motorists, as well as to metropolitan areas needing a lot of help in meeting air quality standards: * A new automobile exhaust system developed at Ohio State University reportedly cuts...

Cherry Blossoms.
March 14, 1999... *** EPA Region 6 will hold four seminars at its Dallas facility to help affected parties comply with new rules designed to reduce the risk of exposure from lead-based paints during remodeling projects. Anyone involved in renovating or...

Bush Bashing and the Texas Air Wars.
March 28, 1999... In the same month that Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder, a bevy of Texas newspapers - notably, the Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle, located in cities with "serious" air pollution problems - have demanded that Texas...

Euthanasia for Grandfather?
March 28, 1999... Joining O'Rourke at the microphone, union organizer Jim Byrd of the Paperworkers, Allied Industrial, Chemical, and Energy Workers International Union (PACE), argued that, "When grandfathered facilities are spewing toxics into the environment,...

NPDES Suit: Wrong Target?
March 28, 1999... TNRCC's Commissioners on March 24 voted to ask Attorney General John Cornyn to intervene on the agency's behalf in two lawsuits that challenge the state's authority to run the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) wastewater...

San Antonio SEP Settlement.
March 28, 1999... TNRCC on March 25 announced a plan to settle the Alamodome environmental enforcement case with the city of San Antonio through creation of the Alamodome Area Environmental Trust. The city will ante up $150,000 from which the Trust will pay for...

Texas' Own NAPA Valley.
March 28, 1999... Thanks to an anonymous $150,000 matching grant, the Natural Area Preservation Association is launching a program to preserve the Holy Trinity Scenic River by public and private ownership of natural areas from Fort Worth down the Trinity River...

Texas Tidbits.
March 28, 1999... *** Paperless permitting is on the way at the Texas Railroad Commission, with a target date of 2005. In a unanimous vote March 23, RRC Chairman Tony Garza and Commissioners Charles Matthews and Michael Williams agreed to begin negotiations with...