Subject: Environmental Issues and Protection

• Crazy day in Nootsville

  March 2, 1995

• Spouting rubbish

  November 30, 1995

• Fouled nest

  April 4, 1996

• Companies that whore

  August 15, 1996

• PCB or TYA: Those Hudson River Carcinogens Are Finally Rolling Into Texas

  Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons's Waste Control Specialists will turn one state's trash into one man's treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs -- or polychlorinated biphenyls, a carcinogenic compound General Electric poured into the Hudson River legally for years till the feds finally banned the practice. The PCBs are on the move now, which is why The New York Time

  May 31, 2009

• Darling will cough up $4 million

  January 2, 1997

• Treed off

  April 10, 1997

• Ill Wind Blowing

  June 12, 1997

• Something In The Air

  June 19, 1997

• Dumped On

  August 7, 1997

• Fish story

  July 9, 1998

• Chemical Warrior

  September 10, 1998

• Blowing smoke

  December 24, 1998

• Trashy behavior

  September 9, 1999

• Dumped on

  August 3, 2000

• Best children's art school

  September 21, 2000

• Raise Taxes Now

  July 4, 2002

• Smells Funny

  August 29, 2002

• Garbage by Numbers

  March 6, 2003

• Letters

  March 20, 2003

• Now Heard This

  April 17, 2008

• Scrappy Doo

  March 13, 2008

• Talk About Truth

  June 1, 2006

• Panorama

  September 14, 2006

• Finders Keepers

  Shop indie crafts in Cowtown

  April 23, 2009

• Neighborhood Watch

  May 17, 2007

• The Bad Tenant

  When the Navy abandoned ship at the Dallas Naval Air Station, it left an expensive mess behind

  September 19, 2002

• Belly up

  Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  April 20, 2000

• Down on the Farm

  July 6, 2006

• Down in the Dump

  City's new recycling center just can't seem to master recycling

  May 22, 2003

• Talkin' Trash

  Earth Day needs schooling

  May 1, 2003

• Cash for Trash

  The city's new recycling center is up and running, sort of

  November 21, 2002

• Trashy Questions

  City auditors take a belated look at Dallas' recycling program

  June 20, 2002

• Garbage In, Garbage Out

  Why Dallas' recycling program is a $17 million joke

  May 16, 2002

• Down by the Old Mill

  A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

  December 27, 2001

• This Sand is Your Sand

  On the Texas coast, the only thing eroding faster than the sand is the state’s Open Beaches Act

  July 20, 2000

• Burned into memory

  A county employee questions the safety of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas

  June 22, 2000

• Whizzing inside the tent

  ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

  June 8, 2000

• Clearing the air

  The motive behind a series of Bush attack ads may have been business, not politics

  April 6, 2000

• Bay botch

  Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

  January 13, 2000

• Troubled waters

  DFW Airport officials were warned years ago that they had a problem with water pollution. So why are fish still dying?

  September 16, 1999

• For a Second Year, the Sue Pope Fund Will Dole Out Grants to Folks Who Can Clear the Air

  Katy HubenerIn a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, a Midlothian rancher known for her role in the decades-long fight against air pollution emanating from TXI's cement plant-cum-hazardous waste incinerator. The story is a long and dramatic one (we told

  June 9, 2009

• Don't Want TXI to Burn Tires in Midlothian? Too Bad. TCEQ Doesn't Wanna Hear About It.

  In April, public ire rose when Texas Industries scored a 10-year air permit renewal -- no public comment period required -- for its notoriously toxic Midlothian cement operation. The renewal came with one condition: TXI's cement kilns, the only ones in North Texas authorized to burn hazardous waste, couldn't increase their emissions. But, as it turns out, TXI has applied for a permit to burn "tires and tire shreds" in one of its Midlothian kilns, which appears to be a direct violation of that pr

  June 12, 2009

• What Happens When You Kill Your TV

  Kimberly ThorpeThere are about 219 Victory Park jokes to be had here. So, have at it.At noon today in Victory Park, a group of enviro-activists dressed for Halloween dropped to the concrete to rather dramatically mark the end of analog television. The switch from analog to digital television was supposed to happen back in February but was delayed when an estimated 6 million U.S. household were unprepared for the switch. But time's run out: The flip was switched, oh, 'bout 90 minutes ago.As a res

  June 12, 2009

• Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

  Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvious consensus on a few points: They liked the EPA's new rules. They felt they needed them, because the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), depending on whom you ask, falls somewhere betw

  June 18, 2009

• Environmentalists Plenty Steamed About Possible Nominee to Head EPA's Dallas Office

  EarthFirstWhen it comes to the new regional Environmental Protection Agency head, environmental groups are tired of sending pointed letters. Tomorrow, the campaign to dethrone John Hall as the front-running potential nominee for administrator of the EPA's Region 6 (which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana) goes public. Activists from across Texas and representatives from several environmental groups will gather outside the EPA's regional office in downtown Dallas to pro

  June 29, 2009

• Just Why Is the EPA Considering Waste Management's Lobbyist For Dallas Director?

  Alexa SchirtzingerThis morning, in the reflection of Dallas's Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Some were outraged at Hall's past and current ties as a lobbyist for oil, gas and waste companies, but others openly shared their personal experiences with Hall -- and some,

  June 30, 2009

• Is the City of Dallas Really Going Green, Or Just Talking Till It's Blue in the Face?

  The city of Dallas has made much of its efforts to "build a greener city" ... which means what, exactly? That, more or less, was the question posed earlier this week during a confab at the downtown Dallas library during a program billed as a dialogue on the "green economy," a catchphrase that's become increasingly popular but is seldom well-defined. According to Cyrus Reed, the Sierra Club-Lone Star Chapter's conservation director, that's because a green economy isn't necessarily a defined thing

  July 2, 2009

• Pulling the Plug on Current Energy

  View Larger MapThere's space for lease on Knox Street -- nice location too, right between the Apple store and Wild About Harry's. Until, oh, today, of course, that was the Current Energy location. But according to a press release we received this afternoon, Joe Harberg's done pulled the plug on "the world's first energy efficiency store™" and moved some of the energy-efficient product to Lakewood -- the Green Living store on Abrams Parkway, to be specific, where they peddle "earth friendly goo

  September 9, 2009

• Downwinders at Risk Hails SMU Engineering Prof's Appointment as EPA Administrator

  Al Armendariz​Al Armendariz, a research associate professor in SMU's Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, was on National Public Radio earlier this week discussing health issues suffered by folks living near the Barnett Shale; said Armendariz of airborne toxins discovered by researchers, "the oil and gas production industry around Fort Worth is a major contributor to both local and global air pollution problems." Around the same time, the engineering professor was posting to

  November 5, 2009