Environmental Insider News articles from September 2000

Environmental Insider News archives from September 2000

Joe Barton: Two Parties Looking for a Leader.
September 14, 2000... The National Environmental Policy Institute, a bipartisan group founded in 1993 "to promote greater environmental benefits through more effective and efficient environmental policies and management," brought its dog and pony show to Austin on...

NEPI Seeks Local Wisdom.
September 14, 2000... Barton also said he would reopen the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other federal laws and look at the standards to see if they are realistic. Finding policies that can be implemented is far better, he concluded, than tossing bombs at each...

Enviro-Justice Again!
September 14, 2000... The public comment period has just ended for EPA's latest effort at developing guidance for investigating complaints, pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that challenge environmental permits on "environmental justice" grounds....

Once More into the Breach!
September 14, 2000... For the second time in two years, the National Wilderness Institute has taken on EPA Administrator Carol Browner and her agency. The report, "Under the Guise of Environmental Protection - EPA Revealed," by Dr. Bonner Cohen, documents what NWI...

Smoking That Pipe(line).
September 14, 2000... In the wake of two recent pipeline accidents (in Abilene and Garland) and the ongoing controversy over the proposed Longhorn Partners Pipeline operation that would supply west Texas with gasoline from Houston refineries, the Railroad Commission...

Texas To Face Higher Gas Prices, Tight Supply.
September 28, 2000... The Lone Star State may lead the nation in natural gas production, but that won't stop Texas from facing higher heating bills this winter, according to Railroad Commissioner Tony Garza. Increased demand for this fossil fuel may take natural gas...

Gore-Bush-ev for Prez?
September 28, 2000... Some reporters have said the 2000 Presidential campaign has no issues. This may be true for those who follow the rodent-driven national press version of the campaign (rats, moles, etc.), but in the real world where some of us try to live the...

Reformers Target TNRCC.
September 28, 2000... It looks at though we will have Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (the name and the agency) around for another dozen years, but if the Legislature takes up the findings of the Sunset Advisory Commission, the old (well, young) gray...

Texas Tidbits.
September 28, 2000... *** A San Antonio landlord is facing a proposed $128,920 civil penalty for alleged violations of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that San-Tex Lumber Company, Inc., was...

Cherry Blossoms.
September 28, 2000... *** Three former employees of a now-closed environmental testing laboratory in Richardson have been indicted in what federal officials have called the biggest lab fraud case in U.S. history. (Well, everything is bigger in Texas, they say.) The...