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Board of Miseducation Environmental Textbook Author Sues Texas Over Alleged Censorship		05 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Board of Miseducation Environmental Textbook Author Sues Texas Over Alleged Censorship When it comes to textbook publishing, Texas calls the shots across the nation, by virtue of being big enough to need a whole heck of a lot of books. In the past, the Lone Star State has grabbed headlines for refusing to use science texts that teach evolutionary theory and not creationism; now, a major case is brewing over the t ...
Topics: politics, religion and spirituality, Texas (all these topics)

A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State Texas is probably not the first place that comes to mind when the topic turns to clean energy -- but the land of fossil fuels is looking to become a leader in renewable power by investing heavily in wind energy. The state is already the second-largest wind-energy producer in the country, trailing only California. In the last three years, Texas h ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Austin Powers		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

The Yellow Haze of Texas		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Yellow Haze of Texas Meanwhile, the state of Texas is plagued by its own air-quality issues -- and the state House and Senate are at loggerheads over what to do about it. On Monday, the Senate passed a bill to fund the Texas Emissions Reductions Program, the key component of a federally mandated state anti-smog plan. The bill would raise some $150 million per year for pollution control by raising fees on vehicle title transfers, wh ...
Topics: air pollution, Texas (all these topics)

In a Moment of Leakness		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
In a Moment of Leakness A baffling leak has been discovered at one of the newest nuclear reactors in the U.S. The South Texas Nuclear Project, 90 miles southwest of Houston, was discovered to have leaked cooling water from its large reactor vessel, a problem that experts have never before encountered. "This is the first time it's been seen, either here or abroad," said Victor Dr ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ohio, Texas (all these topics)

Grilling Me Softly		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Grilling Me Softly As spring comes to the Northern Hemisphere, people all over are hauling out the yard furniture and shlepping barbeques out of basements. Everyone loves a cookout -- but in Houston, Tex., the massive popularity of barbequing is contributing to the city's notorious air pollution. Scientists at Rice University have found that tiny particles of polyunsaturated fatty acids from barbequing meat are "a somewhat importa ...
Topics: air pollution, Texas (all these topics)

Terror Alert Level: Green		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Terror Alert Level: Green New York City is on high terrorist alert. The entire nation is on tenterhooks. And at California State University at Fresno, security was heavy -- for an academic environmental conference. The reason? The conference addressed "revolutionary environmentalism" and participants included former members of militant environmental and animal-rights organizations that have been link ...
Topics: animal welfare, California, education, Texas (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: ... Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers Invasive species are wreaking havoc on African wetlands to the tune of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). For example, the water hyacinth, introduced from the Amazon Basin as an ornamental plant, has spread to most of Africa's lakes and rivers, choking out ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Texas, wetlands, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Like Padre, Like Son		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Like Padre, Like Son With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in th ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, national parks, oceans, politics, Sierra Club, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Halliburton and Hunt Oil, two Texas energy companies with strong ties to the Bush White House, are requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing for a natural gas project in Peru that will tear through pristine rainforests. The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank are forbidden from funding projects that ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Peru, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Hazing Ritual		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Hazing Ritual It might be officially nicknamed the Golden State, but sometimes, it's more like the Yellowish-Brown State: California continues to lead the U.S. in dirty air, with nearly twice as many "smog days" as any other state in the union, a recent report by an e ...
Topics: ... environmental non-government organizations, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Texas (all these topics)

Money Doesn't Grow on Tree Cutting		26 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Money Doesn't Grow on Tree Cutting Money talks. At least, that's the hope of environmentalists in Texas, who are appealing to taxpayers' economic self-interest in an effort to stop commercial logging in the state's four national forests. After 15 years of failed efforts to stop the logging through legal action, the Sierra Club turned to a different tactic, commissioning and going public with a study on the l ...
Topics: logging, Sierra Club, Texas, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Texas Toast		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Texas Toast Like John and Yoko, industry and politics in the U.S. have climbed into bed together and just refuse to get out. Nowhere is that more evident than in Texas, homeland of the Bush clan and the most polluted state in the country. Let's spell it out: Texas is the number one spewer of toxic chemicals and carcinogens into the air, number one in chemical spills, number one in ozon ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Peli-can!		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Peli-can! Good news from the Pelican State: Brown pelicans may be removed from the endangered species list in Louisiana following a highly successful reintroduction program. By the middle of the 20th century, the birds had disappeared from their namesake state (and were almost wiped out throughout the nation) due to exposure to the pesticide DDT, which caused them to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect de ...
Topics: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Sunny Dispositions		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sunny Dispositions San Francisco may be making headlines with its innovative plan to radically expand solar power generation, but other places deserve kudos as well, according to a study released last week by Greenpeace. The study, produced before the San Francisco plan was approved by voters last week, compared both planned and installed solar energy systems in ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Greenpeace, Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Texas, water pollution (all these topics)

The Yellow Haze of Texas		16 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
The Yellow Haze of Texas A plan to cut air pollution dramatically in Houston by 2007 was approved by the U.S. EPA yesterday. If successful, the plan will bring the city into compliance with the federal Clean Air Act for the first time. The plan lowers speed limits, mandates stricter vehicle exhaust testing, and calls for a 90 percent decrease in industrial nitrogen oxide emissions, among other measures. Regional EPA Administra ...
Topics: air pollution, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Benzene Wring		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Benzene Wring A five-year study by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission found that two chemical companies, Marathon Ashland Petroleum and BP Chemical, have been releasing unacceptable amounts of benzene into the air around Texas City, 60 miles southeast of Houston. The levels of benzene, which is a known carcinogen, were three to six times higher than those permit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, state politics, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Barton Finks Austin is losing the battle to protect the Barton Springs salamander	Dan Oko	24 Apr 2001	Main Dish
At first blush, it hardly seems fair to compare the plight of the Barton Springs salamander to that of endangered species such as the fierce grizzly of the Northern Rockies or the no-longer-so-resilient salmon of the Pacific Northwest, totemic animals that characterize whole regions and spark national debate. After all, the Barton Springs salamander is a tiny creature, with full-grown adults ...
Topics: Texas, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Bright Lights, Big Kitties The border patrol is threatening two endangered cats in Texas	Dan Oko	13 Nov 2000	Main Dish
The Texas-Mexico border has long been a setting for political skirmishes, a conflict zone where figures hide in shadows hoping to find a loophole in the paramilitary operations that attend the Rio Grande, the river that separates the U.S. from its southern neighbor. This ocelot doesn't have nine lives. Photo: U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. When the U.S. Immigration and Naturali ...
Topics: Mexico, Texas, US EPA, US Forest Service, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Dream of the Black-and-Blue Turtles Sea turtle activists are pushing for protections in Texas	Dan Oko	25 Aug 2000	Main Dish
They may be swimming against the current, but sea turtle advocates say they want Gov. George W. Bush (R) to show a little of his fabled compassion for the endangered reptiles that frequent the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast. The New York Times ad. Image: STRP. As the GOP presidential hopeful prepared to accept his party's nomination earlier this month, the San Francisco- ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, grassroots activism, oceans, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

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