ECONOTES 2012-08-27: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- Houston Going Greener With Expanded Electric-Car Sharing Program (Richard Connelly – Houston Press, 08/22/2012)
The proposed “Houston Fleet Share” program, a ride-sharing program, will expand and upgrade Houston’s use of electric vehicles as 50 city-owned fleet vehicles will be made available for city employees. The three-year deal will eventually involve 300 drivers across 13 city departments and is funded by the State Energy Conservation Office American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (SECO-ARRA) Transportation Program (SEP).
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/ - Rewards offered for green commuting: Bike, bus or train to work and get gift certificates (Whitney Radley – Houston Culture Map, 08/17/2012)
A program offers tangible incentives for people to commute alternatively. NuRide is a site that rewards people with coupons, gift cards and more for walking or biking to work, taking the bus or rail, ride sharing or even telecommuting. It takes only a few moments to create a free NuRide account, and commuters can immediately begin tracking and tallying trips, arranging carpools and ride shares, through the easy-to-use site.
http://houston.culturemap.com/ - New Online “Ozone Map” Will Help Houston Residents Reduce Lung Exposure (Carrie Feibel – KUHF News, 08/20/2012)
Houstoncleanairnetwork.org is a new website that allows people to track Houston’s most notorious air pollutant, ozone, down to the neighborhood level. The available map updates every five minutes and tracks ozone down to the one square-kilometer level. This is an important tool as the American Lung Association currently ranks Houston #7 among most ozone-polluted cities.
http://app1.kuhf.org/
EcoNotes
- 27 August
- Looking Back on the Labor Day Wildfires (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - USGBC Gulf Coast Chapter Named BBB Accredited Charity (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/
- Looking Back on the Labor Day Wildfires (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
- 25 August
- Absence of rain cleans Gulf (Matthew Tresaugue – My SA News)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/
- Absence of rain cleans Gulf (Matthew Tresaugue – My SA News)
- 24 August
- Plans for New Park – Bethel Park
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - Houston to launch first municipal electrical vehicle car sharing program (Your Bellaire News)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - Spring: Free electronics recycling event on Sept. 8 (KHOU News)
http://www.khou.com/ - Texas State Receives Major Gift for Water Research (Reeve Hamilton – The Texas Tribune)
http://www.texastribune.org/ - Waste Management, Renmatix to explore waste-to-sugars potential (Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/ - Infographic: How Tar Sands Oil Gets Out of the Ground and Into a Pipeline (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/
- Plans for New Park – Bethel Park
- 23 August
- City workers to share green vehicles (Allan Turner – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Residents sought for survey on quality of life (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.pressdisplay.com/ - Texas State Parks Announce Fall Camping Workshops for Outdoor Families (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ - Houston partners with Zipcar to improve city fleet efficiency (Olivia Pulsinelli – Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/ - $10,000 Grant to Fund Bastrop State Park Trail Building (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ - What Texas Can Do About Roads Damaged By Drilling (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - How the Midwest Drought is Affecting a Still-Recovering Texas (Mose Buchele – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Editorial: How might I-69 coexist with the Grand Parkway? (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/
- City workers to share green vehicles (Allan Turner – Houston Chronicle)
- 22 August
- Houston Going Greener With Expanded Electric-Car Sharing Program (Richard Connelly – Houston Press)
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/ - Texas communities empower residents to prepare for wildfires
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - TCEQ Approves Fines Totaling $436,234 (TCEQ News)
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ - Mystery Behind Sandy Creek Power Plant Begins to Unravel (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Uptown’s Westpark Transit Center endorsed by Bellaire (Robin Foster – Your Bellaire News)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/
- Houston Going Greener With Expanded Electric-Car Sharing Program (Richard Connelly – Houston Press)
- 21 August
- Solar cell efficiency receives a transparent boost (Jeannie Kever – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - A. Marm Kilpatrick: Researcher on West Nile virus and climate change (Texas Climate News)
http://texasclimatenews.org/ - You can click on new tool to check smog (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Pioneering Ozone Maps Empower Houston Residents (Matthew Tejada – Guidry News)
http://guidrynews.com/ - Appeals Court Turns Down Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, EPA Must Revise (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Texas wins air pollution appeal (Matthew Tresaugue – My SA News)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/ - The Bigger Picture on Carbon Emissions (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Life-Saving Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in Jeopardy Following Court Ruling (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - TCEQ statement on favorable CSAPR court ruling (TCEQ News)
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ - Deeply Divided Court Blocks Vital Clean Air Protections for Texans (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - Texas Scores Another Victory Against Overreaching EPA, Court Overturns Agency’s Illegal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (The Attorney General of Texas)
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/ - TCEQ accepting nominations for 2013 Texas Environmental Excellence Awards (TCEQ News)
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/
- Solar cell efficiency receives a transparent boost (Jeannie Kever – Houston Chronicle)
- 20 August
- New Online “Ozone Map” Will Help Houston Residents Reduce Lung Exposure (Carrie Feibel – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Now You Can See Houston’s Smog Levels in Real Time (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/
- New Online “Ozone Map” Will Help Houston Residents Reduce Lung Exposure (Carrie Feibel – KUHF News)
- 19 August
- Port site of oil recycling refinery (Heather Menzies – The Bay City Tribune)
http://baycitytribune.com/
- Port site of oil recycling refinery (Heather Menzies – The Bay City Tribune)
- 18 August
- Officials bracing for spread of zebra mussels in North Texas (Bill Hanna – Star-Telegram)
http://www.star-telegram.com/
- Officials bracing for spread of zebra mussels in North Texas (Bill Hanna – Star-Telegram)
- 17 August
- Rewards offered for green commuting: Bike, bus or train to work and get gift certificates (Whitney Radley – Houston Culture Map)
http://houston.culturemap.com/ - TWRC Wildlife Center opens in The Woodlands (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/
- Rewards offered for green commuting: Bike, bus or train to work and get gift certificates (Whitney Radley – Houston Culture Map)