MAYORS AGREE ON PLAN TO HELP AIR QUALITY Baytown Sun, 3/16/07 Houston Mayor Bill White and the mayors of six east Harris County cities met Thursday to iron out their differences and cool the friction created by White’s proposal to negotiate voluntary restrictions on benzene emissions at refineries in those cities. HARRIS COUNTY MAYORS UNITE TO BATTLE POLLUTION TEXAS NUCLEAR…
HOUSTON MAYOR CUTS BACK CLEAN-AIR PROPOSAL Houston Chronicle 3/9/07 Mayor Bill White has significantly scaled back a controversial plan to make Houston the first place in Texas with health standards for hazardous air pollutants, according to a draft circulated this week. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY PROPOSES STRICT STANDARD FOR SOME DIESEL ENGINES New York Times 3/2/07 The Environmental Protection Agency, which for…
EMISSION REPORTING STANDARDS RELAXED Baytown Sun 2/26/07 The Environmental Protection Agency has loosened its emission reporting standards. LITTLE PAIN, MUCH GAIN Houston Chronicle 02/25/2007 Baker Hughes has added some 800 workers to its 140-acre Rankin Road campus in the last few years but barely a penny to its power bill. WALL STREET ADDS CLIMATE CHANGE TO BOTTOM LINE Christian Science…