Wasn't It FABulous?

Economic and environmental consequences of high tech plant closings are potentially grim.

"...much tighter environmental laws in California, and the resulting "toxic flight" of tech companies to friendlier territory, such as..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...idea of "organic" food derived from genetic engineering and toxic sludge, now's the time to throw your weight behind..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...got the microscopic nature of the chemicals, and the toxicity, that you don't want getting into the body." Especially,..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...• BFI Waste Systems, which operates the Sunset Farms landfill in Northeast..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...be so nice. Same for petty theft, loitering, public intoxication, lots more. Also, why does it always have to..."

June 13, 2003 Column

Naked City

Off The Desk:

"...the nation's third most polluted river, in terms of toxic chemicals discharged into them between 1992 and 1996 ......"

Sept. 25, 1998 News Feature

Zeroing in on Our Throwaway Culture

City committee dreams of a waste-free Austin

"...a monumental shift in how our community deals with waste...."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Environmental Cage Match

After a history of pulling its punches, is EPA finally forcing TCEQ to clean up the Texas air?

"...action by announcing its intent to make new coal-combustion waste rules – a protection discussed but not enacted for..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Get a Hog!!

"...we have a $65 million raid on Water & Wastewater (W&WW) utility rate payers that was conceived in secrecy..."

April 17, 1998 Column

City Adds Costs and CO2 to Recycling Program

Our milk jugs, newspapers, and cereal boxes are shipped to Dallas for sorting and selling

"...90-gallon recycling bins increase the volume and types of waste that residents can recycle, the new trucks started making..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lead-Laced Garbage Case Back in Court

Texas Disposal Systems owner still fighting to get hazardous waste out of his landfill

"...crews that once broken, the cargo was considered hazardous waste due to its high lead content. TDS' landfill isn't..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Harold Simmons' political contributions could get him a West Texas Waste Dump & Austin environmentalists rally around the documentary film Green.

"...the state's nuclear lobby works to license a radioactive waste dump in West Texas, an Austin public interest group..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Trash Talk

New rules for state garbage

"...nation and includes recommendations for strengthening TCEQ's municipal solid waste rules – Chapter 330 of the Texas Administrative Code...."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Come and Get Your Lead!

TCEQ turns up the heat in the toxic-TV-tube saga

"...remove 99 roll-off bins containing hundreds of tons of waste – some of it lead-contaminated – from the Texas..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...on Tuesday, both the radioactive kind, and the merely toxic. First, they discussed how the state and county should..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Freeport's Motherlode

The Feds Undress Jim Bob

"...for years: that the tailings below the mine are toxic, and that they have degraded rivers below the mine...."

Nov. 10, 1995 News Feature

Killer Green Information Environmental BBSs

BBS Basics

"...all the legislation being created regarding packaging and environmental waste issues." File areas include physics, chemistry, and biology...."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

The Beach House

Terror rises like a tide in this unnerving lo-fi cosmic horror

"...in the shadow of the never-seen "Doc") would rather waste his time on the coast than in the classroom...."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Myco Alliance Uses Fungus as an Edible Recycling System

Locals let fungi do the work

"...is called mycelium. It's the engine that decomposes natural waste and gives life to an enzyme-producing mushroom...."

March 23, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

Texas on the Brink UPDATED

Sixth edition ranks Texas nationwide

"...of high school graduates. Our state generates more hazardous waste and carbon dioxide emissions than any other state in..."

April 15, 2013 News Post by Michael King

Delwin's Index

"...compounds released into air – 1st • Amount of toxic chemicals released into water – 1st • Amount of..."

Jan. 9, 2012 Postmarks

City Hall Hustle: Play It Again, MRF

There's many a slip between the dais and the big blue bin

"...city's next recycler may make the process just as toxic...."

June 25, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye

DTV transition day is looming. Are you prepared?

"...the Dumpster where it will become another piece of toxic e-waste. You have options, thanks to the joint efforts..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...EPA to revoke the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's hazardous-waste regulation authority, claiming the commission's failure to act in..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Sept. 16 decision that classified 1,600 tons of lead-contaminated waste in a Texas Disposal Systems landfill as "hazardous," thus..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Enviros Give Dell a (Barely) Passing Grade

Hopeful signs – but continuing challenges – for electronic recycling effort

"...The conflict over the recycling of electronic waste took a turn for the better over the past..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Hightower Report

The Texas Lege comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted; and Nevada proves to be a poor dumping ground.

"...factory located down at the tip of Nevada. The toxic chemical leached from the factory into the nearby Colorado..."

May 16, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

"Corporate Predator" Dissected

Freeport Makes The Nation

"...Using a combination of factors like crime, educational opportunities, toxic emissions, and air and water quality, the group rated..."

July 21, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Capitol Briefs

"...electronic devices are becoming increasingly larger parts of our waste stream, with observably damaging health effects, including the dispersal..."

April 20, 2007 News Column

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...• Austin-based Dell computers unveiled a global electronic-waste recycling program last week, expanding their existing efforts to..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature

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