ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES, DECEMBER 1-7

CONSERVANCY GROUP DIRECTOR TO LEAD PARKS AND WILDLIFE Austin American-Statesman 12/6/07 Growing up in Austin with a love of the outdoors, Carter Smith held a lifelong dream to someday work for Texas Parks and Wildlife. FEDS TELL METRO TO RE-SUBMIT RAIL PLANS FOR APPROVAL Houston Chronicle 12/05/07 Federal transit officials have told the Metropolitan Transit Authority it must re-apply for…

MY FIRST EPA HEARING

By Leslie Ness (Leslie is CEC’s intern. She has degrees in communication and nursing. We sent her to the EPA hearings to report her impressions. For other reports, see this Chronicle article and this Houston CLEAN report.) As I drove into Houston’s Manchester neighborhood to attend Tuesday’s hearing on the EPA’s proposed emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants from refineries,…