Environmental Insider News articles from May 2002

Environmental Insider News archives from May 2002

Election Fraud in Austin - Again!
May 6, 2002... Well, what would you call it? We are not expressly talking about the fact that just 4.31% of the registered voters were needed to pick winners in the May 4 elections for three Austin city council seats. That is fewer than the number of...

Whitman Pledges a Return to "Sound Science" at EPA.
May 6, 2002... EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who appears to be getting out of the media doghouse (based on a story in the May 5 Austin American-Statesman), gave an interesting speech at the EPA Science Forum on May Day - the day we used to dance around...

Cherry Blossoms.
May 6, 2002... El Paso To Get $1MM for Brownfields EPA Administrator Christie Whitman on May 3 announced $21.5 million in new brownfields grants, $1 million of which is targeted for projects in El Paso. These grants, awarded through the Brownfields...

Texas Tidbits.
May 6, 2002... AirCheck Texas Data Disputed Despite what you may have read in the papers (or at the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission - soon to be Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website), it i is just not the case, we are told,...

Checking Up on the Air-Check Program.
May 9, 2002... EI NEWS has learned that, while Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TxCEQ) and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) personnel did some "tremendous" work in helping the auto service industry gear up for the new Air-Check vehicle...

Concrete Plant Owner Falls Victim to HB 2912.
May 9, 2002... Poor Otis Dickerson. The 20-year veteran of the Texas concrete industry was virtually forced into bankruptcy and loss of his only business just as his wife was facing life-threatening colon cancer surgery thanks to the inflexibility written...

Eco-Terrorism Turns Deadly.
May 9, 2002... Worldwide news outlets can hardly ignore the linkage between the animal rights movement and the assassination-style murder of Dutch political figure Pym Fortuyn. Fortuyn, an openly gay politician whose campaign largely focused on restricting...

Texas Tidbits.
May 9, 2002... Still Safe at Higher Speed? Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal fears that the state's new 55 mile per hour speed limit that was imposed as an environmental protection measure in Harris and other Houston area counties may not...