Environmental Insider News articles from September 2003

Environmental Insider News archives from September 2003

The Battle of Valle Verde: Mexican Campesinas Choose Biotechnology Over Fear.
September 18, 2003... Valle Verde, Quintana Roo, Mexico (September 15, 2003). This dusty hamlet of tin and scrap wood shacks outside Cancun just off the main road to Merida became the latest battleground in the global war over genetically enhanced crops. The...

Eco-Imperialists Gored by CORE in Cancun.
September 18, 2003... Environmental activists are famous for using street theater to embarrass opponents and draw attention to their platforms. But during the recent World Trade Organization confab in Cancun, it was the eco-purists who found themselves on the...

Is Iraq Worth the Price of Gasoline.
September 18, 2003... I was at the gas pump the other day, and it occurred to me that there is a LOT of hypocrisy over energy policy in the USA these days. Out in California, the lame (duck) governor is calling for a federal investigation of gasoline price gouging -...

Bluebonnets.
September 18, 2003... Well Plugging in George Bush Park The Railroad Commission of Texas had what Commissioners Michael L. Williams, Charles R. Matthews, and Victor G. Carrillo all call "another successful year of well plugging" funded by the Oil Field Cleanup...

NEON Lights Up NSF.
September 28, 2003... A recent study by the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, strongly supports the use of a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to undergird continental-scale research on pressing environmental challenges. An NRC ad...

TWDB Boosts Desalination Research.
September 28, 2003... The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has approved three grants not to exceed $500,000 each, to the Brazos River Authority (BRA), the Brownsville Public Utility Board (PUB), and the city of Corpus Christi, to prepare regional water facility...

Water Conservation Implementation Task Force.
September 28, 2003... The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has approved 32 nominees for membership to the Water Conservation Implementation Task Force as required in Senate Bill 1094 [78th Legislature, Regular Session]. SB 1094, authored by state senator Robert...

Bluebonnets.
September 28, 2003... RRC Gets EPA Brownfields Grant The Railroad Commission of Texas is the latest recipient of a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. The RRC has won...