Environmental Insider News articles from October 1999

Environmental Insider News archives from October 1999

Project 2061: Science Texts Flunk Out!
October 14, 1999... In what is certainly not a surprise to many Texans who have long criticized the textbooks offered for use in America's classrooms, Project 2061, the science education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

AP Environmental Science.
October 14, 1999... The AAAS Project 2061 study came on the heels of a review of advanced placement (AP) courses in environmental science by the Environmental Literacy Council that found the quality and accuracy of the presentation of environmental topics to vary...

NSF Board on EnviroScience.
October 14, 1999... A recent interim report by the National Science Board recommended an initiative to implement nearly all of the activities proposed for a National Institute for the Environment, and set a target for new funding of $1 billion (above the current...

PUC Stymies Education?
October 14, 1999... It appears that one result of the state's electric utility deregulation law (Senate Bill 7) may be that Texas electric utilities will no longer be able to provide customer education services after September 1, 2000. The Public Utility...

Editor: TEEP to the Rescue?
October 14, 1999... It wasn't planned, but the present issue highlights the problems and promise of environmental education activities in Texas and around the nation. The distinguished American Academy for the Advancement of Science lambasted middle school science...

Texas Tidbits.
October 14, 1999... *** Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen's Texas office, went to Washington on October 6 to testify before the House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Power about his opposition to H.R. 2944, an electricity deregulation...

Landfill Wars in Rusk County.
October 28, 1999... Settling what might be characterized as either (1) a local political vendetta between a leading Rusk County Democrat who is also a powerful state representative and the City of Henderson's Republican city attorney who has defended the city...

Landfill Legal Issues.
October 28, 1999... Rep. Sadler raised several issues in his motion, but his chief legal point was a claim that the city's permit was not merely inactive but revoked, and thus it could not be transferred, nor could the landfill be reopened. Sadler argued that...

Political, Personal Agendas.
October 28, 1999... With the decision by TNRCC's Commissioners to accept the Executive Director's issuance of the permit transfer, the discussion should be moot as to issues relating to interpretation of TNRCC rules governing landfill transfers and the reopening...

Navy Abandons Ship.
October 28, 1999... The U.S. Navy has abandoned its effort to obtain a temporary order from TNRCC to authorize the discharge of up to 500,000 gallons a day of perchlorate-contaminated treated groundwater from the inactive Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant...

Texas Tidbits.
October 28, 1999... *** TNRCC has reappointed four members of its 18-member Municipal Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery Advisory Council, but an absence of nominees left a fifth post - for an elected official from a city of at least 750,000 people -...