ECONOTES 2010-06-13: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- Plenty Of Gulf Volunteers, Not Enough Work (Mary Foster – Click2Houston)
The oil spill has attracted many volunteers, but the government and BP are not able to take everybody. Much of the work requires special training and special equipment, which most people do not have. The lack of available volunteer work for the public has only added to the frustration toward BP and government officials.
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23866742/detail.html
- Battle lines formed over Texas air quality (R.G. Ratcliffe – Houston Chronicle)
Many changes, including a new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, have brought about the conflict over Texas air quality. The EPA has not been satisfied with the way the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has allowed many big companies to obtain permits for their emissions.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7039716.html
- Students receive awards for bringing recycling program to campus (Katlynn Lanham – The Facts Covering Brazoria County)
Mission Possible, an afterschool program at Lake Jackson Intermediate School, founded a recycling program on campus. The first step involved educating the students, teachers, and staff about recycling. Everybody then made an effort to sort out the recyclables into the bins placed in the school. The program has proven to be a success.
http://thefacts.com/your_town/brazosport/article_2cfcb204-6f89-11df-96b1-001cc4c002e0.html
EcoNotes
- 26 May
- Tougher Rules Are Ahead for Offshore Drilling (Jennifer A. Dlouhy – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7024090.html
- Tougher Rules Are Ahead for Offshore Drilling (Jennifer A. Dlouhy – Houston Chronicle)
- 27 May
- Wave-powered Water Plant Gets Green Light (Casey Wooten – Houston Business Journal)
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/05/24/daily32.html - ‘Something stinks’ in Southwest Houston (Ron Trevino – KHOU News)
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Something-stinksSouthwest-Houston-residents-complain-of-foul-odor-lingering-in-the-air-95063414.html
- Wave-powered Water Plant Gets Green Light (Casey Wooten – Houston Business Journal)
- 28 May
- New Offshore Drilling Limited (Jennifer A. Dlouhy – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7026038.html - Foreboding Signs Forming in the Tropics (Eric Berger – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7025950.html - Burgess wants an investigation into TCEQ (Aman Batheja – Star-Telegram News)
http://startelegram.typepad.com/politex/2010/05/burgess-wants-an-investigation-into-tceq.html - Green Responds to President’s Announcement Regarding Shallow- and Deep-Water Drilling (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000026939 - Gov. Perry: EPA’s Actions will Undermine Texas’ Environmental and Economic Successes (Office of the Governor)
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/14691/
- New Offshore Drilling Limited (Jennifer A. Dlouhy – Houston Chronicle)
- 29 May
- Turf war over air not affecting ExxonMobil (Doyle Barlow – The Baytown Sun)
http://baytownsun.com/story/51295
- Turf war over air not affecting ExxonMobil (Doyle Barlow – The Baytown Sun)
- 30 May
- Engineers Go Where Politicos Fear on Flooding (Rick Casey – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/7029471.html
- Engineers Go Where Politicos Fear on Flooding (Rick Casey – Houston Chronicle)
- 31 May
- Naturalists developing Seabourne (John S. Merculief II – Fort Bend Herald)
http://www.fbherald.com/articles/2010/05/31/news/doc4c03ddeb78d05673774271.txt - Oil Spill Adds New Anxiety to Hurricane Season (Carrie Feibel – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275336116 - Hurricane Map Tracks Many Risks (Melissa Galvez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275335428 - Houston region closer to large storm surge project (Eric Berger – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/news/specials/hurricane/7030757.html
- Naturalists developing Seabourne (John S. Merculief II – Fort Bend Herald)
- 1 June
- Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Hearing First to Consider Global Warming in Texas (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027006 - Houston engineers seek to fix city’s flooding problems (Bradley Olson – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7032047.html - Comments on the Regional Oil Spill News Conference (Jim Schweitzer – Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027017 - Area Leaders Get Ready for Busy Storm Season (Bill Stamps – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275424467 - 2010 Hurricane Readiness (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027010 - Gov. Perry: Texans Must Prepare for 2010 Hurricane Season (Office of the Governor)
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/14712/ - 2010 Hurricane Season Is Here (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027007 - Upper Texas Gulf Coast Response to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (Jim Guidry – Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000026988 - Ready For Any Oil Spill (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275442897 - Wind power losing its punch (Eric Torbenson – Dallas News)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-wind_01bus.ART0.State.Edition1.1d2372c.html - Skeptics Failing to Get Anti-Climate Science Agenda into Texas Classrooms (Solve Climate News)
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100601/skeptics-failing-get-anti-climate-science-agenda-texas-classrooms?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solveclimate%2Fblog+%28SolveClimate%3A+Daily+Climate+News+and+Analysis%29 - TCEQ Fesses Up: More Benzene Data Withheld from Public (Forrest Wilder – Texas Observer)
http://www.texasobserver.org/forrestforthetrees/tceq-fesses-up-more-benzene-data-withheld-from-public - Officials say they’re ready if oil reaches Texas (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7032107.html
- Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Hearing First to Consider Global Warming in Texas (Guidry News)
- 2 June
- Gov. Perry: EPA Action Would Kill Texas Jobs, Derail Air Quality Progress (Office of the Governor)
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/14716/ - At Odds Over Air Quality (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275515143 - Sierra Club, Earthjustice Call on EPA to Help Clean the Air,
Cite Repeated Failures of Governor Perry’s Administration To Comply With Clean Air Laws (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027038 - Perry, Sierra Club take aim against EPA (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7033721.html - Citizen Groups Announce First Suit To Enforce Federal Environmental Laws Directly Against BP (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027025 - Texas gov. touts air quality week after EPA threat (Juan A. Lozano)
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/texas-gov-touts-air-quality-week-after-epa-721985.html?cxtype=rss_news_97113
- Gov. Perry: EPA Action Would Kill Texas Jobs, Derail Air Quality Progress (Office of the Governor)
- 3 June
- Obama Administration Sends $69 Million Bill To BP (Deepwater Horizon Response)
https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/2931/587523/ - Port Arthur International Seafarer’s Center (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027055 - Coast Guard responds to reports of pollution in Florida Keys (Deepwater Horizon Response)
https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/2931/587499/ - Hurricanes and Oil Spills: Both Good and Bad News (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027057 - City of Friendswood decides drinking water exceeds requirements by EPA (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027057 - Anger Grows As Oil Hits Panhandle Beaches (Holbrook Mohr – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23787815/detail.html - Drilling ban hits Halliburton, Baker Hughes (Brett Clanton – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/7033042.html - Regulators yank two new drilling permits (Jennifer A. Dlouhy – Housotn Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7035537.html - BP Spill Forces Choice Between Ecology And Economy (Jay Reeves – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23786262/detail.html - Plan would change funding for flooding projects (Elissa Rivas – ABC13 News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7476832http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7476832 - Models Simulate Gulf Oil Reaching East Coast (Cain Burdeau – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23783553/detail.html - Runway work on track, airport director says (John Lowman – The Facts Covering Brazoria County)
http://thefacts.com/your_town/angleton_cc/article_2fe0c240-6f88-11df-bd90-001cc4c002e0.html - BP makes progress, cuts pipe (Ford Gunter – Houston Business Journal)
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/05/31/daily30.html?surround=lfn
- Obama Administration Sends $69 Million Bill To BP (Deepwater Horizon Response)
- 4 June
- Oil Stains Beaches, Tourists As Slick Spreads (Holbrook Mohr – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23798065/detail.html - Students receive awards for bringing recycling program to campus (Katlynn Lanham – The Facts Covering Brazoria County)
http://thefacts.com/your_town/brazosport/article_2cfcb204-6f89-11df-96b1-001cc4c002e0.html - Scientists keep close eyes on corals after spill (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7037229.html - Pelicans and other birds drenched with oil in offshore nesting areas (Barbara Kessler – ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/04/pelicans-and-other-birds-drenched-with-oil-in-offshore-nesting-areas/ - Sobering Lessons From ’79 Gulf Oil Spill (Mark Stevenson – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23789971/detail.html - Let’s Hear It for Building Codes (Kate Galbraith – The Texas Tribune)
http://www.texastribune.org/blogs/post/2010/jun/04/tribblog-lets-hear-it-building-codes/ - Vegetable Gardening – Little bit of green (Michael Reed – River Oaks Examiner)
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/06/05/river_oaks_examiner/news/ro_downtown_garden.txt - EPA sets stronger air quality standard for sulfur dioxide (ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/04/epa-sets-stronger-air-quality-standard-for-sulfur-dioxide/
- Oil Stains Beaches, Tourists As Slick Spreads (Holbrook Mohr – Click2Houston)
- 5 June
- Cap Offers Some Hope Even As Oil Spews On (Holbrook Mohr – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23804558/detail.html - Horror of Ike darkens rebound (Allan Turner – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7037423.html - Apprehension, not celebration, greets this World Environment Day (Barbara Kessler – ABC13)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/05/world-environment-day/
- Cap Offers Some Hope Even As Oil Spews On (Holbrook Mohr – Click2Houston)
- 6 June
- Battle lines formed over Texas air quality (R.G. Ratcliffe – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7039716.html - Deep-water ban sending ripples through Houston (Brett Clanton – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7039523.html
- Battle lines formed over Texas air quality (R.G. Ratcliffe – Houston Chronicle)
- 7 June
- Time To Get Ready For Hurricane Season (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275947274
- Vegetable Gardens at City Hall (Melissa Galvez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1275884496
- Time To Get Ready For Hurricane Season (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
- 8 June
- BC firefighter pushes for burn ban signs (Jane Howard Lee – The Baytown Sun)
http://baytownsun.com/story/51432 - 1979 Oil Spill Like Today’s (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027171 - Oil and water: Spills and the shoreline, part 1 (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027164 - Guard Completes Sandbag, Barrier Missions on Gulf (Department of Defense News)
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59531
- BC firefighter pushes for burn ban signs (Jane Howard Lee – The Baytown Sun)
- 9 June
- Storm damage causes residents to relocate (Jane Howard Lee – The Baytown Sun)
http://baytownsun.com/story/51443 - Drink Plenty of Liquid (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1276117853 - Tourism Officials Keep Close Eye on Gulf Oil Spill (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027198 - Experts back combined approach to limit hurricanes’ surge flooding (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News)
http://www.texasclimatenews.org/FeatureStories/6910Expertsbackcombinedapproach/tabid/1718/Default.aspx
- Storm damage causes residents to relocate (Jane Howard Lee – The Baytown Sun)
- 10 June
- A Visit with Dr. William Merrell, Ph.D. Concerning the Ike Dike (Jim Guidry – Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000027217 - Helpless gulf birds are the sad symbols of oil spill’s wreckage (Melissa Segrest – ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/10/helpless-gulf-birds-are-the-sad-symbols-of-oil-spills-wreckage/ - Oil spills threatens Mississippi Delta goods and services worth more than BP’s value (Barbara Kessler – ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/10/oil-spills-threatens-mississippi-delta-goods-and-services-worth-more-than-bp%E2%80%99s-value-2/ - BP shareholders file lawsuit over Gulf oil spill (ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/06/10/bp-shareholders-file-lawsuit-over-gulf-oil-spill/ - BP likely to collect more oil than it can process (Monica Hatcher – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7045264.html - EPA offers option to firms worried over compliance (Peggy Fikac – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7047161.html - Nine Questions (and Provisional Answers) About the Spill (Peter Coy and Paul M. Barrett – Bloomberg Businessweek)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_25/b4183058355217.htm
- A Visit with Dr. William Merrell, Ph.D. Concerning the Ike Dike (Jim Guidry – Guidry News)
- 11 June
- New Oil Spill Total Is Bad News For BP, Wildlife (Brian Skoloff – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23866765/detail.html - Plenty Of Gulf Volunteers, Not Enough Work (Mary Foster – Click2Houston)
http://www.click2houston.com/green-pages/23866742/detail.html
- New Oil Spill Total Is Bad News For BP, Wildlife (Brian Skoloff – Click2Houston)