ECONOTES 2012-10-01: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- 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.
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- 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/ - 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.
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EcoNotes
- 1 October
- Small Town Hopes To Get Rid Of Its Big-City Traffic Problems (Gail Delaughter – KUHF News)
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- Small Town Hopes To Get Rid Of Its Big-City Traffic Problems (Gail Delaughter – KUHF News)
- 28 September
- Reddit Commenters Debate: Did Texas Deserve the Drought? (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - West Nile Virus in Houston Nearly Gone (Laurie Johnson – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - “Language Intelligence†from Scientist and Super Blogger Joe Romm (Vicki Wolf – CLEAN)
http://www.cleanhouston.org/ - Eminent Domain Casts its Long Shadow Over the Texas Legislature (Mose Buchele – StateImpact)
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- Reddit Commenters Debate: Did Texas Deserve the Drought? (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
- 27 September
- Road debris on the rise in Houston area (Samica Knight – ABC 13 News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ - A Closer Look at Whether Millions of Dollars in Texas EPA Lawsuits Are a ‘Bargain’ (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
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- Road debris on the rise in Houston area (Samica Knight – ABC 13 News)
- 26 September
- Fort Bend County power plant looks to Dallas for smog relief (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/ - Will 2012 end as a record-warm year for Texas and the contiguous US? (Texas Climate News)
http://texasclimatenews.org/ - Texas A&M Forest Service survey shows 301 million trees killed by drought (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/ - TxDOT Promises Commuter Relief For One Of Houston’s Most Congested Freeways (Gail Delaughter – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/ - Partnerships accelerate the Hwy. 290 expansion by 2 decades (John Rigg – Community Impact Newspaper)
http://impactnews.com/ - What’s Next After the Keystone XL Pipeline’s Latest Court Victory (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Alta Mesa Services, L.P., Fined for Violating the Clean Water Act (EPA News)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ - Natural Gas Liquids Production To Surge Over Next Two Years (Andrew Schneider – KUHF News)
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- Fort Bend County power plant looks to Dallas for smog relief (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
- 25 September
- The Final Numbers Are In: Over 300 Million Trees Killed By the Texas Drought (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Dukes of Hazard: EPA Declares Two New Superfund Sites in Texas (Elizabeth Trovall – StateImpact)
http://stateimpact.npr.org/ - Proposed changes to air quality standard permit announced (TCEQ News)
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/ - Adopt-A-Beach volunteers cleanup 153 tons of trash (Guidry News)
http://guidrynews.com - Choice of EPA administrator pleases environmentalists (Fuel Fix)
http://fuelfix.com/ - Texas A&M Forest Service Survey Shows 301 Million Trees Killed By Drought (Texas A&M Forest Service)
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- The Final Numbers Are In: Over 300 Million Trees Killed By the Texas Drought (Terrence Henry – StateImpact)
- 24 September
- Cities take aim at proposed flyover (Catherine Dominguez – Your Conroe News)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - Cheetah Conservation Fund Commits to Expand Bushblok Programme for 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
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- Cities take aim at proposed flyover (Catherine Dominguez – Your Conroe News)
- 23 September
- Local recycling saves city money, funds food pantry (Melecio Franco – Your Cleveland News)
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ - TxDOT plans to widen US 90 (Your Cleveland News)
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- Local recycling saves city money, funds food pantry (Melecio Franco – Your Cleveland News)
- 21 September
- Amie Treuer-Kuehn Selected for Outstanding Women in Texas Government Award (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
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- Amie Treuer-Kuehn Selected for Outstanding Women in Texas Government Award (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
- 20 September
- Houston-Galveston Area Council names Clean Air Action award winners (Olivia Pulsinelli – The Houston Business Journal)
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- Houston-Galveston Area Council names Clean Air Action award winners (Olivia Pulsinelli – The Houston Business Journal)
- 19 September
- Eldridge Park Trail gets support from Great American Trails Grant (Fort Bend Star)
http://www.fortbendstar.com/ - New Cracks in the Frack (Denise Grollmus – Houston Press)
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- Eldridge Park Trail gets support from Great American Trails Grant (Fort Bend Star)
- 14 September
- New Online Identification Guide to Texas Marine Organisms Available (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
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- New Online Identification Guide to Texas Marine Organisms Available (Texas Parks & Wildlife)