Environmental Insider News articles from May 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from May 2000

Will 36, 20, or 15 Texas Counties Be Nonattainment?
May 14, 2000... Despite the fact that the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has questioned the propriety of EPA's 1997 promulgation of an 8-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards and barred the agency from enforcing it, EPA...

Keeping Texas Legal.
May 14, 2000... TNRCC Executive Director Jeffrey Saitas says the potential unclassifiable designations are based on the following factors: * uncertain status of the 8-hour standard. * federal, state, and regional regulations already in place that will...

Kinney 13-yr Fight Goes On.
May 14, 2000... First, it was Texcor Industries, Inc., which beginning in 1988 sought to win a license to construct and operate a byproduct type 2 radioactive materials waste disposal facility at a site in Kinney County near the Mexican border. After a 5-year...

Terminals Seek Fee Relief.
May 14, 2000... TNRCC staff will be meeting with representatives of the Texas Terminal Operators on May 18 to discuss how the agency might accommodate their request for regulatory relief from a requirement that they pay hazardous waste generation fees of up to...

"Alice" v. "Lonesome Dove" and the CAFO Range Wars.
May 28, 2000... Call it serendipity, if you will, but the Austin offices of the Sierra Club and Consumers Union could hardly have picked a better day to release their new joint report flagging Texas for being No. 1 in livestock waste pollution than the day...

Bosqueing in the Moonlight?
May 28, 2000... CU-Sierra: Organics, Not Factories The Consumers Union-Sierra Club report, "Animal Factories: Pollution and Health Threats to Rural Texas," says failure to properly control 220 billion pounds a year of animal waste generated by Texas...

Texas Squeezes Automakers.
May 28, 2000... Armed with a statement by Texas Governor George W. Bush favoring consideration of adopting California car standards for the Lone Star State, TNRCC's Commissioners have been playing hardball with the nation's auto manufacturers in an effort to...

Texas Water Plan Update.
May 28, 2000... TNRCC's Commissioners and Water Development Board members held a joint meeting on May 16, at which representatives from all 15 of the state's regional water planning groups made presentations (some informally) about their progress and problems...

Texas Tidbits.
May 28, 2000... *** The Railroad Commission on May 23 voted to approve two pipeline safety proposals sponsored by RRC Chairman Michael L. Williams. The proposals require TXU Gas to remove all segments of PE3306 (poly I) pipe from the ground by yearend rather...

Cherry Blossoms.
May 28, 2000... *** The Sierra Club is spending about $250,000 over the next 3 weeks to trash the management of the Texas environment by Gov. George W. Bush. In a TV spot being aired in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Lansing (MI), and in the state of Ohio,...