Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...objected to provisions requiring Southern states to get Justice Department preclearance before changing voting procedures and requiring bilingual ballots..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

Trash Talk

New rules for state garbage

"...sites; requests for better ground water monitoring standards, considering EPA data showing 75% of landfills were leaking contaminants; efforts..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...(if any) should be meted out for infractions of department policy and/or procedure. Rocha was shot and killed on..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature

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Industrial air pollution will become "routine" as President Bush guts the Clean Air Act

"...Not surprisingly, industry and EPA officials praise the change for "providing certainty" in the..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Where the (Early Action) Rubber Meets the (Clean Air) Road

Local leaders take the first steps toward real-world solutions to our air-quality problems.

"...affect the governments themselves, not their citizens. But the EPA also has a tougher new standard for measuring ozone..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Report

Bush appointee fights hard … for corporations; and Big Digital Brother Is Watching You

"...so unprincipled and nutty that the head of the EPA has publicly disowned it, saying: "EPA will not, I..."

June 6, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Air Clearing Over Rockdale?

"...The EPA and citizen groups sued Alcoa in 2001, after Neighbors..."

April 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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Beyond City Limits

"...health standard established in 1997. The settlement requires the EPA to determine by April 2004 which areas of the..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature

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"...that Barton Springs salamanders are not jeopardized by the EPA's construction permit process. The May 6 opinion effectively reverses..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Brave New Web

In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.

"...the rule. Sergeant Robert Pulliam of the Austin Police Department says criminal hacker activity is rarely reported in Austin...."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

Capitol Chronicle

Bush brings smog to Europe, and Rich Oppel blows smoke.

"...there might be a problem, just not one I'm prepared to do anything about. We need more studies. Still,..."

June 22, 2001 News Column by Michael King

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Austin and the surrounding cities and counties still have a long way to go before they reach an agreement on reducing ozone emissions that everyone can live with.

"...The latter of these is the stricter, but the EPA has been tied up in court since 1997 trying..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...of skin color. As for reversing some of the EPA's mandates, good for him, the freaking EPA is a..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

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A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

"...Project for their strong support and the Austin Police Department for their friendly approach and quiet presence...."

March 31, 2000 Column

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The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.

"...Non-attainment status is designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Our status will be determined in the midsummer of..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column

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Losing Our Lunch

"...flood control projects to avoid condemnation proceedings and of EPA projects from around the nation featuring such concepts as..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

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ACC Needs Planning, Not Damning

"...On three separate occasions I have tried to apply logic and common..."

June 20, 1997 Column

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"...quality, appears to be more concerned with convincing the EPA to hold off on enforcement of federal air standards..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

The Last Boy Scout

On the Lege

"...and pesticides are the key issues for the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) as it undergoes the sunset review..."

April 28, 1995 News Column

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...has become since Bilott began his decades-long crusade. The EPA has been defanged, and the courts are increasingly packed..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin’s Least-Loved Landfill May Be Poised to Grow Again

The other ACL: The Austin Community Landfill

"...win a city of Aus­tin waste disposal contract, WM prepared a multimillion-dollar plan to remediate the IWU by removing..."

Jan. 18, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Al Gore reminds us (once again) that climate change is real

"...wildfires rage, and a new president brazenly guts the EPA, cuts funding for science and education, and calls man-made..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hold That Wastewater!

Effluent flows could cripple three local endangered species

"...negotiations with a goal of no direct discharge." See "EPA Raises Questions About Dripping Springs Wastewater," Dec. 16, 2016...."

March 10, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

The Luv Doc: Feeding Pigeons

Toddlers have a lot of cartilage, don't they?

"...First of all, I think it's an EPA violation to feed pigeons Cheez-Its. If it's not, it..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

South Central Waterfront Initiative Wants You

To view plans and provide feedback for proposed designs

"...made the various workshops possible - comes from an EPA “Greening America’s Capitals” grant...."

Sept. 2, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp

Walk and Draw Along the Lake

Help create a people's field guide to the South Central Waterfront

"...Austin received a “Greening America’s Capitals” grant from the EPA that is helping fund the commission of design options..."

Aug. 26, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp

Eastman Wins; Jury Still Out on Plastic

Lawsuit highlights potential health effects of plastics

"...very few standards for testing products for EA. The EPA recommends a "battery" of tests, but it's still debated..."

Aug. 2, 2013 News Feature by Ann Chen

West, Ammonium Nitrate, And the Myopia of Terrorism

House hearing shows emphasis on public safety, not health and safety

"...It was a similar story from the Department of State Health Services: As representatives of the agency..."

May 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Cartoon Governor

Willful official negligence destroyed a small Texas town

"...the early information that it was a massive "accident" prepared and waiting to happen. In an April 29 piece..."

May 3, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Top 10 Environmental Stories

Save Our Springs' anniversary, Al Armendariz's move, and the bag ban

"...this backdrop, Texas won a legal battle with the EPA over the state's rather lax air quality control rules..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

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