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'Leading Voice for Environmental Protection'
"...decades – that of being the leading voice for environmental protection in America." Urbanized preservationists, extreme eco-feminists, haters of..."

Jan. 25, 2005 Postmarks

Environmental Cage Match
After a history of pulling its punches, is EPA finally forcing TCEQ to clean up the Texas air?
"...by what she discovered about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state agency responsible for enforcing the Clean..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Top 10 Environmental Stories
An oil spill and a water treatment plant top the list
"...No. 4 dominated the year's enviro debates, with most environmental groups opposed to the project as unnecessary and wasteful..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Top 10 Environmental Stories
We've only got one planet
"...2) Smitty Steps Down The Austin voice of climate protection, Tom "Smitty" Smith, announced his retirement after 35 years..."

Dec. 30, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Wal-Mart Construction Request Stalled Due to Environmental Concerns
The Environmental Board has shuffled a request for Wal-Mart to the Bull Creek Watershed subcommittee
"...The Environmental Board – leery of another controversy over a Wal-Mart..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Top 10 Environmental Stories
Drought, wildfires, and more WTP4
"...on Coal Enviros and public health advocates celebrated the Environmental Protection Agency's new safeguards to limit mercury pollution from..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

Top 10 Environmental Stories
Save Our Springs' anniversary, Al Armendariz's move, and the bag ban
"...first tree ordinance, which was designed to ensure the protection of many of the city's oldest leafy inhabitants. The..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

Environmental Defenders
Tom "Smitty" Smith's retirement gives way to Adrian Shelley's arrival
"...tireless and effective work on behalf of clean energy, environmental protection, and government ethics reform ("The Man in the..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Top 10 Environmental Stories
Local environmental news wasn't all bad this year
"...2) CLIMATE TARGET In April, Council revised its Climate Protection Plan to make it "the most aggressive city plan"..."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Climate Protection: City in No Hurry To Cool It
Checking in on the Climate Protection Program's progress – or lack thereof
"...now, the city's annual report on the Austin Climate Protection Program is due for release. (It's late, but then..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Unrealized Opportunities: Ester Matthews on the Austin Climate Protection Program
Ester Matthews reflects on the progress of the ACPP
"...week the Chronicle spoke at length with Austin Climate Protection Program Director Ester Matthews about the history and progress..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

Environmental Groups Warn Congress to Slow Down on Texas Coastal Barrier
It should block storm surges, but it might also kill native species off
"...Environmental groups are ringing alarm bells as the U.S. Army..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Isabel Maney

The Austin Climate Protection Plan
An update on the state of the city's ACPP
"...to doing its part through the 2007 Austin Climate Protection Plan – as it is in every other corner..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Did Congress Pass Monsanto Protection Act?
Food activists up in arms over biotech rider in HR 933
"...HR 933, the provision now being called the “Monsanto Protection Act,” essentially deregulates genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by allowing..."

March 26, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Texas Environmental Penalties Are Increasing
Time for tougher regulation
"...under scrutiny at the Legislature. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will grow some new teeth thanks to Sunset..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin Climate Protection Plan
The five components
"...are completed. Each city department will develop its own climate-protection plan, to include targets/goals, policies, procedures, and reporting/monitoring systems...."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Top 10 Environmental Stories
The state dealt with a drought as the city took on some prickly issues
"...construction projects to start anew under older, less stringent environmental regs...."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Amy Smith

City Needs Stronger Environmental Ethic
"...enviro has made the cover. Katherine Gregor's Austin Climate Protection Plan story [“Cool Austin, Cool Planet,” News, April 18]..."

April 23, 2008 Postmarks

Austin Climate Protection Plan Year One Highlights
A progress report on Austin's war on global warming
"...implementation of the 2007 council policies that support climate protection: Austin Energy: Town Hall Meetings..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature

Capitol Chronicle
The Lege attempt at air pollution control gets shot down in court.
"...a violation of state and federal guarantees of equal protection under the law. So, of the bill's projected $137..."

May 3, 2002 News Column by Michael King

EPA vs. the AP
Environmental Protection Agency smears journalist after criticism of Harvey inspections
"...In 1984, the Environmental Protection Agency was portrayed as cartoonish poltroons turning a..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Body Snatchers
"...moves with her father (Kinney), a scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency, her stepmother (Tilly) and younger stepbrother (Murphy)..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?
This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear
"..."[M]ore than 2,500 leading environmental experts agreed [yesterday on] a statement that called on..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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

Earth Days
Directed with a flawless eye and judicious craft, this documentary is an informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement.
"...and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players, Earth..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enviro Advocates Honored
Save Barton Creek Association hands out awards and barbecue
"...of a certain alternative weekly for their contributions to environmental protection...."

March 25, 2014 News Post by Amy Smith

Capitol Chronicle
Environmental groups notify Alcoa Corp. of intent to sue over environmental violations.
"...air, since a few days earlier Neighbors for Neighbors, Environmental Defense, and Public Citizen had served Alcoa with their..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Fire Down Below
"...Seagal strikes me as the least interesting Zen Buddhist, environmental activist, country music-playing martial arts movie star imaginable. But..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Slow Burn
City's climate protection plan sputters in 2010
"...Austin Climate Protection Program Director Ester Matthews was briefly summarizing the current..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Austin's Political Ecosystem
Swearingen's Environmental City tells the inner history of city politics
"...aspirations and more formidable villains – are recounted in Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

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