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October 1, 2012

ECONOTES 2012-10-01: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region

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  1. Local recycling saves city money, funds food pantry (Melecio Franco – Your Cleveland News, 09/23/2012)
    Recycling opportunities offered by a local nonprofit organization will help the city save money, keep tons of garbage out of landfills and raise much needed funds for a food pantry. Operation Refuge operates a food pantry which distributes food to approximately 250 families each month. The group started recycling to make money off of the excess donation items received that could not be sold at the resale shop.
    http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/
  2. Fort Bend County power plant looks to Dallas for smog relief (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 9/26/2012)
    Fort Bend County has one of the nation’s worst smog problems. An effort to rein in emissions linked to global warming at the W.A. Parish power plant could be in jeopardy because the project could produce too much smog-forming pollution. To move forward, NRG has made the highly unusual request of state and federal regulators to allow it to buy pollution credits from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to offset additional smog-forming emissions.
    http://www.chron.com/
  3. Dukes of Hazard: EPA Declares Two New Superfund Sites in Texas (Elizabeth Trovall – StateImpact, 09/25/2012)
    Two new National Superfund sites were named in Texas, one of them in Pasadena. Pasadena’s watershed, Vince Bayou, has faced environmental threats from a waste management company called US Oil Recovery for almost ten years. Reckless disposal of toxic waste around the watershed has caused the toxic chemicals to drain into the bayou.
    http://stateimpact.npr.org/

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