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November 12, 2012

ECONOTES 2012-11-12: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region

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  1. Texas looks to motorists to cover industry’s pollution bill (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 11/09/2012)
    Houston’s 260 chemical plants, oil refineries and other large facilities may avoid tens of millions of dollars in penalties for the region’s failure to achieve federal clean-air goals. TCEQ argues that it should not have to collect those fines because it already is raising money for smog-fighting programs through vehicle inspection fees and sales taxes for diesel equipment, among other revenue sources.
    http://www.chron.com/
  2. Cook’s Branch Conservancy receives Texas’ highest award for private land conservation (Mike Cox – Texas Parks & Wildlife, 11/07/2012)
    Located in Montgomery County north of Houston, Cook’s Branch Conservancy offers a rare glimpse into what a century of regeneration looks like in the Pineywoods region of East Texas. Earlier this year, the conservancy won the Leopold Conservation Award, which recognizes and honors outstanding habitat management and wildlife conservation on private land. The owners continue to expand the conservancy as habitat restoration efforts — decades in the making — shape the property into one of the state’s best-kept forests.
    http://www.tpwmagazine.com/
  3. Cleanup begins after 15,000 fish die in Galveston (Robert Stanton – Houston Chronicle, 10/31/2012)
    Recently Galveston city workers removed more than 15,000 smelly fish from Lake Madeline that died over the weekend when the oxygen levels dropped. Steven Mitchell, regional biologist at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said a high concentration of algae bloom depleted the oxygen level, killing fish that included Gulf menhaden, speckled trout and redfish. Low oxygen levels have plagued the lake in recent years, killing off fish by the thousands, most recently last year.
    http://www.chron.com/

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