2002 Press Releases

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Sierra Club Wins Appeal on Suit to Speed up Beaumont-Port Arthur Clean Air Plan
December 12, 2002

Sierra Club Files Suit to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles on Padre Island National Seashore
December 4, 2002

East Texas Water Planning Group Set to Pull the Plug on Marvin Nichols Dam and Reservoir Proposal
December 2, 2002

Park Service Approves Plan to Increase Drilling within National Seashore
November 22, 2002

Water Monitoring Training Event to be Held at Lake Belton; Working Towards Goals set by Clean Water Act 30 Years Ago October 19  
October 16, 2002

Sierra Club Profiles Communities Left at Risk by Bush Administrations Environmental Policy
September 27, 2002

Lackluster Parks Plan Approved by TPW Commission  
August 29, 2002

Brownsville Weir Permit Filed with Army Corps of Engineers 
July 12, 2002

BNP Petroleum Loses Radioactive Material in Drilling Well on Padre Island 
June 27, 2002

Shrimping Closure Boosts Turtle Nestings Dramatically on Texas Coast 
June 17, 2002

President Bush Seeks to Gut Key Clean Air Act Provision 
June 13, 2002

Padre Drilling Operations Expected to Last 15 Years  
June 11, 2002

Sierra Club Urges State, Feds to Examine Buyout of Mineral Rights Under and Around Padre Island National Seashore 
June 4, 2002

Texas Parks Plan to be Unveiled Tomorrow  
May 28, 2002

Report Debunks Myth of Texas Nuclear Waste Crisis  
April 29, 2002

Texas Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Terror Attacks
April 23, 2002

Sierra Club Goes to Court to Halt Drilling on Padre Island National Seashore 
April 18, 2002

Sierra Challenges Expansion of Dairy CAFO in Heavily Polluted Leon River Watershed 
April 16, 2002

Sierra Runs Ad for State Park Campaign  
April 9, 2002

Maine to say "Adios" to Texas Radioactive Waste Compact 
April 4, 2002

Texas' Guadalupe River is One of America's Most Endangered Rivers 
April 2, 2002

Environmental Groups Make Case to Texas AG: Don't Trow Out Polluter History Rules
February 8, 2002

Sierra Club Challenges President to Care for America the Beautiful
January 30, 2002

Cook is Strong Choice for TPW Director  
January 25, 2002

Texas Needs More Parkland!  
January 24, 2002

Key Gulf Coast Fish Nursery Endangered by LCRA-SAWS Water Transfer Projec   
January 22, 2202 

Parkland and Wildlife Habitat Plan Moves to Front Burner at TPW  
January 17, 200

TPW Proposes Fee Increases That Could Put State Parks Out of Reach for Many Texans  
January 3, 2002

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