Pollution concerns push Texas for stronger spill controls
Senate beach and pipeline committees heard a day of testimony urging tighter offshore oil rules and a national oil company. Officials cited a polluter fines fund, stricter enforcement, and safer rigs, with additional calls for air and water safeguards and tighter regulatory powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
Fof Pipeline Committee
Terence O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Railroad Commission
Roy Payne Acknow
Jocn Shanahan Jr
Houston
el Paso
Crawfiord C. Martin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bronte Enterprise
Bronte
Coke Courtly
Ben Oglesby
Niclas
Coke
Commission
Sen
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
D. Roy Harrington
Port Arthur
Ronnie Dugger
Dugger
Ross Sterling
Nixon
Supreme Court
High Court
Allstate
Astrodome
Beaumont Housewares
Jp‘s
State Bar
San Antonio
Tices of the
Jp's
State Department of Agriculture
John C. White
Interm Legislative Study Committee On
White
Florida
Arroyo Colorado
Laguna Madre
Rio Grande Valley
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Calalsy
Martin
Dallas
Amarillo
Lubbock
Preston Smith
Smith
Crane
Jesse James
Texas Highway Department
Democrat “Rebuilding Committee
Lloyd Bentsen
Insurance & Real Estate
O. T. Colvin
Martin N. Lee
Christian Science Monitor
Congress
Pease
Astor Station
Massachusetts
Bronte, Texas
WTA
WTU
West Texas Utilities Company
Uewa