Environmental Insider News articles from November 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from November 2000

TXU Settles with TNRCC in Clean Air Cases.
November 14, 2000... Well, it's two down and four to do for Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) on the lawsuit front (with regard to the Dallas-Fort Worth State Implementation Plan and related rules the agency adopted last April). TXU Electric &...

PTAC Protests I/M Award.
November 14, 2000... TNRCC Executive Director Jeff Saitas may soon have a difficult decision to make regarding a protest to the awarding of a research contract aimed at helping the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program. In what could be a first for the...

Texas Boosts Wind Power.
November 14, 2000... One of the best kept secrets of the 2000 Presidential campaign was the burgeoning growth of wind power as a source of electricity generation in Texas, thanks largely to legislation signed by Governor George W. Bush. And among those cheering on...

The 2000 Elections - A Pain in the Asterisk!
November 28, 2000... Forget the facts regarding the various legal challenges over the Florida vote tallies (and how they are being done, and so forth - even forget the military ballot issue). The simple fact that the Presidential election (and a few others down the...

Brown Makes It Tough!
November 28, 2000... The Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources has decided to release its reports first only via their Internet site [www.senate.state.tx.us], via Adobe Acrobat(r) files. Later on, it seems, there may be a few hard copies available to those...

Chisum Tackles Three Issues.
November 28, 2000... Especially given the interest in the subject by House Environmental Regulations Committee Chairman Rep. Warren Chisum (R, Pampa), it is almost a certainty that the Texas Legislature will take some action in 2001 regarding the management of...

McClendon Targets TNRCC.
November 28, 2000... The 77th Legislature has, for all practical purposes, already begun, with the beginning of the pre-filing period for upcoming legislation. First out of the block was Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon (D, San Antonio), whose recent personal experiences...

Texas Tidbits.
November 28, 2000... *** The Railroad Commission on November 28 adopted emergency rules that will ensure that low-income Texans have the natural gas heating they need to keep warm this winter. Commissioner Tony Garza had proposed the rules, which prevent low-income...

Cherry Blossoms.
November 28, 2000... *** Meteorologist Fred Singer, using temperature data assembled by James Hansen of NASA, says that the world has not gotten any warmer since 1940, and that human activity was not the cause at that time. Singer found no evidence suggesting...