ECONOTES 2012-01-11: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- Re-Plant Houston Begins Reforestation (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News, 01/06/2012)
“Re-plant Houston” is a program that will use the help of volunteers to plant over 25,000 trees in four Houston parks: Memorial, Hermann, MacGregor and Mason Parks. These four parks have removed an estimated 10,000 trees due to the drought. The Houston Parks Department has started by replanting a 17-foot live oak at Memorial Park.
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Endangered Turtles Find New Hope at Texas A&M-Galveston Sea Life Facility (Guidry News, 01/10/2012)
Texas A&M University at Galveston and its new Sea Life Facility are now providing endangered sea turtles with a place to recover before being released back into the Gulf of Mexico. The Oceans and Coastal Studies building is the only Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified building on the Gulf coast and is suited for the rescue work. The university has been involved in turtle restoration efforts for many years, and this program provides another opportunity.
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- Texas Tops List of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Terrence Henry – StateImpact, 01/11/2012)
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a new interactive map that shows the greenhouse gas emissions throughout the country for 2010. Texas has the most facilities reporting greenhouse gas emissions with 673 facilities, and it has the most emissions with 294 million metric tons of greenhouse gases emitted in 2010.
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Harris County Among Nation’s Worst Air, Water Polluters (Andrew Schenider – KUHF News, 01/05/2012)
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EcoNotes
- 11 January
- Texas Tops List of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Texas and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - At Hearing on Drought, Signs of Optimism and Concern (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - TCEQ approves fines totaling $849,429 (TCEQ News)
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ - Houston among worst offenders on new EPA emissions map (Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/ - 10 January
- Endangered Turtles Find New Hope at Texas A&M-Galveston Sea Life Facility (Guidry News)
http://guidrynews.com/ - Whooping Crane Migration Given Green Light By FAA (Ian Simpson – Planet Ark News)
http://planetark.org/ - Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: Prescribed Burn at Galveston Island State Park this Thursday (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - Texas Senate mull drought impact on power supply (ABC 13 News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ - High Court Appears To Back Landowners In Clean Water Cases (James Vicini – Planet Ark News)
http://planetark.org/ - Valero won’t appeal TCEQ decision denying tax exemption (Matthew Tresaugue – My SA News)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/ - 9 January
- 2011 was the driest year on record in Texas (Marice Richter – Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/ - ERCOT Reports Five Percent More Electricty Usage In 2011 (Ed Mayberry – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - 2011 Was The Driest Year On Record In Texas (Marice Richter – Planet Ark News)
http://planetark.org/ - Drought threatens flock of whooping cranes (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/ - Texas Drillers Get Big Tax Breaks (StateImpact News)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Hope remains despite deadly year for whooping cranes in Louisiana (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Prescribed burning to take place at Jones Forest (Guidry News)
http://guidrynews.com/ - 6 January
- Re-Plant Houston Begins Reforestation (Pat Hernandez – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Norwegian official: ‘Absolutely no doubt’ climate change is real (Ronnie Crocker – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - After exceptionally hot and dry 2011, more drought forecast for new year (Texas Climate News)
http://texasclimatenews.org/ - Warm Weather Threatens To Extend U.S. Drought (Carey Gillam – Planet Ark News)
http://planetark.org/ - Houston Parks & Recreation Dept. Tree Planting (Jim Guidry – Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - Tiger Prawns Roar into the Gulf of Mexico (Mose Buchele – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - U.S. Forecaster Warns La Nina May Linger To Spring (Rene Pastor – Planet Ark News)
http://planetark.org/ - 5 January
- Harris County Among Nation’s Worst Air, Water Polluters (Andrew Schenider – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - EPA Releases 2010 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis (EPA News)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ - Enterprise Products Partners To Build Pennsylvania-Texas Pipeline (Andrew Schneider – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - 4 January
- Goodbye to the Brazos River? (Forrest Wilder – Texas Observer)
http://www.texasobserver.org/ - Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge headquarters ready (Carol Skewes – The Liberty County Vidicator)
http://www.thevindicator.com/ - Pipeline builder avoids nature preserve, drops eminent domain claim (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - 3 January
- On Arbor Day, join effort to replant Houston (Joe Turner – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Birder watches 50 years fly by (Dan Wallach – Beaumont Enterprise)
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/