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February 3, 1994
Just Don't Breathe It
What Houstonians can -- and probably won't -- do to clean up the air they drive through
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May 19, 1994
The Battle for Lavaca Bay
Diane Wilson asked only that her home bay be allowed to live. She says she was told no. So she went to war.
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January 12, 1995
Clunkers R Us
Sell your jalopy, help an industry breathe easier
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December 14, 1995
Letters
Sell your jalopy, help an industry breathe easier
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February 15, 1996
Smoke and Mirrors (and more smoke)
It's called "Motorist's Choice." But the new emissions testing program for Houston may not offer much of a choice after all. And it won't do much for cleaning the city's air, either.
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April 24, 1997
Smile! It's Earth Day!
It's called "Motorist's Choice." But the new emissions testing program for Houston may not offer much of a choice after all. And it won't do much for cleaning the city's air, either.
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September 11, 1997
The Airport That Wouldn't Die
Last fall, environmentalists thought they'd finally put a stake through the heart of the West Side Airport. But the mayoral race seems to have given it a new lease on life.
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November 6, 1997
Mall Rat
Last fall, environmentalists thought they'd finally put a stake through the heart of the West Side Airport. But the mayoral race seems to have given it a new lease on life.
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August 27, 1998
Wetlands Maul?
The Sierra Club got paid off, but a developer's bizarre problems continue
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January 21, 1999
Looking for Answers Down Below
The city doesn't seem to care that a Houston developer's plans for high-density apartments and a supermarket rest atop abandoned oil fields and possible contamination
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February 18, 1999
Blowing Smoke
Government and civic boosters know the way to clean up the air in polluted southeast communities: add another chemical plant
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June 3, 1999
Local Control
Will the state be able to continue to review environmentally sensitive projects, or will it cede power to the feds?
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April 9, 2009
Earth Day Houston
Web exclusive!
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April 16, 2009
Global Climate Change: In Search of the Science
Web exclusive!
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February 15, 2001
The Sky's the Limit
Stop wheezing and cheer up. A front group finds a bright spin on our brown air.
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June 1, 2006
More Gore!
Stop wheezing and cheer up. A front group finds a bright spin on our brown air.
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April 4, 2002
Earth Quake Day
CEC splits from an increasingly commercial fest
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February 14, 2002
Under The Volcano
Crown Central Petroleum spews, sputters and flares up. Neighbors of the plant view it uneasily, never quite sure when it's going to blow.
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June 7, 2001
Red Light, Green Light
With billboards of windmills promising gentle, nonpolluting energy, Green Mountain offers Texans a new power avenue. Will they take it? Should they?
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October 26, 2000
Smoke and Mirrors
As part of the Bush legacy, a special law can hide polluting industries
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December 30, 1999
We're No. 1!
Houston seems destined to remain the country's biggest stink hole
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September 30, 1999
Adrift
Has the fight over port expansion turned a bay watchdog group into a rubber duck?
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March 18, 1999
Enron's Earth (Day) Quakes
Has the fight over port expansion turned a bay watchdog group into a rubber duck?
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November 23, 1995
The Exterminator
Tom DeLay, the bug man from Sugar Land, has always despised environmental regulation. Now, as House majority whip, he's in a position to do something about it.
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August 13, 2009
ExxonMobil Fined $600,000; We Think They Can Come Up With It
Let's be honest.There aren't a lot of "bad days" for a global petrochemical company that made a record $45.2 billion profit last year, so we'll just say ExxonMobil had a less than stellar day on Wednesday when state regulators penalized it more than $600,000 for environmental crimes.ExxonMobil's ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
A Quiet Hell
Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.
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January 6, 2010
Obama's EPA Accused Of "Castrating" Clean Air Act In Houston
Clean-air advocates in Texas had such high hopes for the EPA under the Obama administration. After all, the federal environmental agency has said that, as early as today, it will significantly lower the national ozone limit and has essentially stated that some of Texas' pro-business industrial pe ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
The EPA: "Castrating," Maybe, But Also Getting Tougher
The EPA may giveth, but it can also taketh away -- the agency is toughening guidelines in the fight against smog pollution, lowering the national ozone limit for the eight-hour standard.A federal Environmental Protection Agency spokesman says the agency will announce today that it is lowering the ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
The EPA Might Actually Listen To People At Today's Hearing On Ozone Levels
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of deciding exactly how low it is going to decrease the national smog pollution limit, otherwise known as ozone, and clean-air advocates want you to do your part to help ensure a cleaner, healthier Houston.All day today, the EPA is hosting a pub ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Houston Scores Big In Fed's List Of Cities With Energy-Efficient Buildings
Houston's air may be a national joke, but we do score the occasional surprise good showing in environmental matters.The Environmental Protection Agency today put out its list of the Top 25 cities with the highest number of energy-efficient buildings, and Houston came in a solid sixth.The EPA coun ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Feds To Texas' Environmental Regulators: Good God, You Suck (UPDATED With Rick Perry Saying No, You Suck)
Feds come to the same conclusion we didThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency smacked the hell out of Texas environmental regulators earlier this week, announcing that the feds will begin taking control over the issuance of operating permits to chemical plants and refineries because the s ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Rick Perry To EPA: Stop. Sierra Club To EPA: Hurry The Eff Up
The Environmental Protection Agency is getting hit from both ends for its actions in Texas.The EPA has threatened to take over the permitting process from the Texas Commissin on Environmental Quality if the TCEQ doesn't get tougher on polluters.Governor Rick Perry was in Deer Park yesterday, once a ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
Texas' Environmental Agency & The Feds: This Week May Be Crucial
This week's decision will be watched closelyAll eyes are on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality this week as its three commissioners will decide whether to grant an air permit to a proposed $3 billion petroleum coke-fired power plant in Corpus Christi.The Las Brisas Energy Center has be ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
TCEQ & The Sunset Commission: Texas Environmental Groups Try Working Together
Coming together vs. TCEQThe Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, made up of 12 state legislators who evaluate state agencies every dozen years, is examining the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and will make a recommendation during the next legislative session whether to renew, tweak, or ab ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
TCEQ, State's Clean-Air "Watchdog," About To Be Sued Over A Local Plant
Austin's power supplier a major polluter, groups sayAs the Houston Press has written about, and as the Obama administration has determined, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is a pretty lax watchdog.Now they're going to get sued over it.A coalition of clean-air groups has served forma ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
TCEQ & The EPA: Feds Again Slam Texas' Pollution-Control Efforts
TCEQ: Honeymoon with the feds is definitely overThe EPA took yet another bite out of the Texas air-pollution regulatory system on Tuesday when it decreed that some of state's rules violate federal clean air law.At issue is what's called the New Source Review Program. It deals with the permitting ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Climate Change, Houston's Hot Summer And An Extreme-Weather Future
The heat is on in Texas and elsewhereAugust was the hottest month ever in Houston. A whopping 88.7 degrees, on average, topping previous records from both 1980 and 1962 by a full three-tenths of a degree.And while that doesn't sound like a lot to most folks, it's the kind of number that makes sci ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ
Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups didAfter years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
ExxonMobil's Baytown Refinery Sued For Being So Damn Leaky
Headed to courtFollowing in the footsteps of Shell and and ChevronPhillips, ExxonMobil has been sued by environmental groups who say its refinery routinely violates clean-air regulations and doesn't really do anything about it. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas announced their lawsuit to ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
TCEQ Gets Slammed: Feds Take Powers Away From Texas' Air-Pollution "Watchdog"
TCEQ step aside, feds sayIs an agency a "watchdog" when it doesn't watch? Apparently the feds don't think so. In a bold move today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was taking over the job of issuing greenhouse-gas permits in Texas because the Texas Council on Environmental ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Texas To EPA: Keep Your Hands Off Our Rubber Stamp!!
Texas goes to courtAs expected, Texas state officials are not just going to roll over and accept the Obama administration's taking away their right to rubber-stamp every application to let companies pour greenhouses gases into the air. Texas AG Greg Abbott went to court today, filing a petit ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Duct Tape Holding Pollution Equipment Together: So Bad Even Texas AG Acts
Greg Abbott goes after polluters!!! Take that, Obama!!Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott took precious time off from suing the federal government to get it to stop forcing Texas to enforce Clean Air provisions in order to do a little Clean Air-ing of his own. Abbott's office charged Gulf Che ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Texas AG Greg Abbott Grabs The Spotlight In Fight Against EPA's Tailpipe-Emissions Rule
Greg Abbott leads a mostly southern uprisingTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott wants everyone to know that he is doing everything he can to stop the federal Environmental Protection Agency from trying to implement greenhouse-gas limits on cars and trucks. In the latest of a series of lawsuit ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Annise Parker Wins National Award for Making Houston Greener
Getting some (wind-powered) props.What with all the electric cars and the green municipal buildings, Houston is maybe starting to ditch its reputation for being one of the more polluted cities in the country. Of course, there's still a boatload of pollution, but at least the city government i ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
EPA Hits Texas, Other States With Tougher Air Pollution Regulations: Cue Outrage From Rick Perry, Greg Abbott
Feds up the ante in battle against TCEQ, PerryThe Environmental Protection Agency announced stricter rules on air pollution, rules that will especially affect Texas, whose politicians have been fighting tenaciously to avoid federal regulation of the state's many pollution producers. The EPA ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Good Air Pollution News in Texas? "Flexible Permit" Companies Agree to EPA Guidelines
Breath of fresh airIt's a rarity: Good air-pollution news in Texas that doesn't involve the Obama administration forcing state officials to do their job. The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that 156 Texas companies who have received the notoriously loose "flexible" permits ha ... More >>
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