Environmental Insider News articles from October 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from October 2000

Let's Get, Stay Smart on Water Use.
October 14, 2000... At a Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission work session on October 6, publicist Linda Fernandez noted that the highly successful "Don't Mess with Texas!" campaign has a $1 million annual budget, then asked if water conservation were as...

Five Dollar Oil, Cold Fusion.
October 14, 2000... With oil prices still soaring and energy supplies uncertain for the coming winter, anyone with a proposal to lower costs and increase supplies of energy other than reliance on foreign suppliers is getting at least a lukewarm reception. That...

Will EGR Test KO ASM 2?
October 14, 2000... State regulators, spurred by the Texas State Inspector's Association, have just awarded a $586,771 contract to investigate whether a new, electronic functionality test of a vehicle's exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, used in combination...

Lone Mountain and Sprawl.
October 14, 2000... Firing a new shot in the long-running environmental war between advocates of central planning and advocates of free markets, a group of scholars of the latter persuasion has produced a new manifesto that is the product of a meeting, convened by...

Cherry Blossoms.
October 14, 2000... *** After reciting a laundry list of charges of racism made by African-American employees, U.S. House Science Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R, Wisconsin) on October 3 told EPA Administrator Carol Browner to clean up the agency's...

Thaw in Houston NOx Permit Freeze.
October 28, 2000... At an October 20 work session, TNRCC's Commissioners authorized staff to release a hold on air permit processing for the Houston-Galveston ozone nonattainment area that had been announced via a September 22, 2000, letter to the regulated...

Wrong Light Rail for Austin.
October 28, 2000... Whether or not Austin voters grant Capital Metro authority to spend from one to two billion dollars to build what is touted as a 52-mile "light rail" (we used to call them trolleys) "system" to serve selected areas within Travis County, there...

Work Session Woes, Wows.
October 28, 2000... Discussion regarding removing the freeze centered on the question of whether TNRCC has legal authority NOT to process permit applications in a timely manner. Staff had presented options that included simply lifting the ban; lifting the ban...

TNRCC Legislative Agenda.
October 28, 2000... Also at work session Deputy Executive Director Glenn Shankle provided an update on TNRCC's 12-item draft legislative agenda for the coming 77th session. Many of the items are the product of the Sunset Advisory Commission review of agency...

Two Texas EE Grants.
October 28, 2000... Two Texas entities are among 15 winners of major environmental education grants awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The fiscal 1999 awards, announced on October 23, total over $2.3 million, with the largest chunk, $149,202,...

Texas Tidbits.
October 28, 2000... *** Court dates are looming for two of the six lawsuits filed against TNRCC's Dallas-Fort Worth ozone attainment rules package, which was adopted in April. State district judge Laura Livingston has reset the trial in the Air Transport...