Then There's This: A Victory for Activists?
Council may retain oversight of Austin Energy
"...strong opposition from a large group of consumer and environmental activists, as well as regular citizens...."
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May 17, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith
Knee-Jerk Environmental Activism
"...Dear Editor, Recently a consortium of environmental groups and activists launched a campaign against power plants..."
July 31, 2007 Postmarks
Top 10 Environmental Stories
We've only got one planet
"...happy warrior at the Capitol and City Hall for environmental protection, renewable energy, and political reform...."
Dec. 30, 2016 News Feature by Michael King
Local Activists Call Out Police and Find Themselves Flagged as Threats
Doesn't take much to get on the watchlist
"...ethnic profiling practiced. This week we talk to notable activists whose legal speech and conduct was flagged by ARIC..."
Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson
Activists, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
"...Austin considerably poorer. Seattle's impressive coalition of labor and environmental groups seems to have largely dissipated, while only the..."
Jan. 24, 2009 Postmarks
A Small Light Bulb: Artists, activists, spiritual people convene
Monthly salon where progressives can meet and talk begins this Sunday
"...Laden that you'll let your children be poisoned by environmental toxins. That's just crazy."..."
Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch
Top 10 Environmental Stories
Save Our Springs' anniversary, Al Armendariz's move, and the bag ban
"...power from natural gas plants didn't win over anti-coal activists, who argue such a move would only increase overall..."
Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith
Chefs, Researchers, and Activists Write the Climate Change Cookbook
Redefining what sustainable really means at SXSW
"...you can’t talk about climate change without talking about environmental racism and social justice. A panelist on City Food..."
March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Melanie Haupt
Dragons in the Whorehouse
Houston STP Lawyers Depose "No Nuke" Activists
"...a 16% partner in STP.) Why depose "No Nuke" activists? HL&P attorneys say there's a conspiracy going on between..."
Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature
Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'
Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’
"...with Scott Swearingen to talk about his new book, Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Austin...."
April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum
Harnessing Anger
"...who wins the primary could find an opening if environmentally sympathetic voters defect from the Democratic camp to support..."
Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Behind Enemy Lines at ALEC's Right-Wing Policy Conference
Activists say the American Legislative Exchange Council backs corporate interests over people
"...have got to go!" chanted around 100 labor, immigrant, environmental, disability, and social justice advocates outside the JW Marriott..."
Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Naked City
Breaking news stories from Austin and elsewhere.
"...Dell Inc. came closer to meeting the demands of environmental activists this week by announcing free recycling of old..."
July 16, 2004 News Feature by Michael King
Memoirs of a Movement
Remembering the campaign to Save Our Springs
"...she ran unsuccessfully for mayor and remains active in environmental causes..."
Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature
Austin@COP15
Local participants, activists in Denmark for U.N. climate summit
"...estimated 20,000 official participants, and thousands of other observers, activists, and hangers-on from around the globe, all converging for..."
Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Chemical Warfare
Public health advocates organize around a Bill Moyers PBS special on the chemical industry and the hazards it creates.
"...Moyers special is also expected to re-energize veteran health activists and medical professionals in their fight against a growing..."
March 23, 2001 News Feature by Don Hazen
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Berkeley architect Slim Van der Ryn, and hunger advocate, environmentalist and actor Dennis Weaver. Conference sponsors include the City..."
Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature
Enviros Give Dell a (Barely) Passing Grade
Hopeful signs – but continuing challenges – for electronic recycling effort
"...better over the past two weeks, according to both environmental activists and the high tech companies they are pressuring...."
May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Naturalization Service "detention" centers which have affronted human rights activists all over the world by their harsh treatment of..."
July 12, 2002 Column
All Creatures Great and Small
With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.
"...he said, journalism and nonfiction might help waken our environmental sympathies but were unlikely vehicles for the deep commitment..."
May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko
Naked City
The anti-Longhorn Pipeline contingent rallies in the wake of a preliminary approval of the pipeline.
"...El Paso has drawn the ire of community and environmental activists in and around Austin. The problem, opponents insist,..."
Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko
Keeping Industry Out
illustration by Doug Potter
"...that day hurling a litany of accusations at the environmental community for failing to fight against what residents call..."
July 18, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy
Imminent Harm
The city plays a high-stakes, high-risk game with Stratus Properties, while the citizens look on
"...leadership of Beau Armstrong. But to the seasoned neighborhood activists and the environmentalist old-timers, neither a name change nor..."
July 19, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith
Not Clucking Around
East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.
"..."Not in My Back Yard" tactics used by citizen activists opposing polluting industries. Of course, most of those citizens..."
Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Naked City
TNRCC is up for review by the Sunset Advisory
Commission, but major changes don't seem likely.
"...compliance and "regulatory flexibility" to enforce state and federal environmental laws. This, despite the fact that out of more..."
June 9, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee
The LCRA Means Business
Authority's Plans to Expand Threatens Austin's Control Over
Growth
"...in water and wastewater services, and communities over the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer and the Barton Creek Watershed provide..."
Feb. 7, 1997 News Feature by Alex de Marban
Communication Breakdown
Does the closure of HausBar Farms spell trouble for the urban farming movement?
"...benefit to the gain of the overall community." Despite this, activists and residents alike have concerns about how the propagation of urban farms contributes..."
April 12, 2013 Food Feature by Anna Toon
Naked City
Dell Takes Green 'Baby Steps'
"...Environmental activists again took their concerns to the annual Dell..."
July 25, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Freeport Meets Its Critics
EnvironsCompany Vows to `Hunker Down and Go'
"...rite of spring in the Crescent City: religious and environmental activists from different parts of the country come to..."
May 15, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Written in Stone
UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation
"...there's a building named after one of the worst environmental desperadoes of the modern era. His name is James..."
Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Bullock Texas State History Museum
