ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES, JANUARY 3 – 9

CITY ASKS FOR HELP FROM STATE
Galveston County Daily News 1/8/09
If the state had funds set aside for disaster recovery, the city would ask for money to help stave off layoffs that are still looming, despite a recent 3 percent pay cut, City Manager Steve LeBlanc told state legislators Wednesday.

‘DESPERATE’ GALVESTON SEEKS HELP FROM TEXAS LEGISLATURE

CONTINENTAL JET MAKES BIOFUEL TEST FLIGHT
Houston Chronicle 1/8/09
Commercial aviation just got a little greener.

TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR NAME DIES, BUT NOT ENTIRE CONCEPT
Austin American-Statesman 1/7/09
The Trans-Texas Corridor, as a name and as a guiding concept of the state’s transportation future, is dead, Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director Amadeo Saenz told an audience of more than a thousand people Tuesday at an Austin hotel. But Saenz acknowledged that all elements of the original plan, including a tollway twin to Interstate 35, could be built as stand-alone projects if and when they are deemed necessary.

TXDOT DROPS PLANS FOR HIGHWAY NETWORK AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY

NEW ROAD PLAN RISES FROM ASHES

LT. GOVERNOR PRAISES TXDOT’S IMPROVEMENTS

HOUSTON’S CHIEF ‘GREEN’ OFFICIAL IS NO ENVIRONMENTALIST
Houston Chronicle 1/5/09
The city’s chief officer of sustainable growth is far from your stereotypical “green” activist.

BIRDERS FLOCK TO S. TEXAS TO CATALOG MIGRATORY SPECIES
Houston Chronicle 1/3/09
Fort Worth attorney Lynn Barber started last year with a common loon on the Texas Gulf Coast and ended with a rufous-capped warbler in Arizona.