Houston Environmental News Update August 27, 2013 CEC NOTES Sophany Touch, Global Community Leader Volunteer! COALITION NOTES Save Deer Park Prairie RDA Civic Forums: Environmental Challenges Facing the Houston Region Over the Next 25 Years Cypress Creek Greenway Case Study Presentation Buffalo Bayou Park – Discovery of the “Cistern.” Oiled Wildlife Response Training Workshop KPC Labor Day Butterfly Count H-GAC…
Featured Whistleblower, Landowners: TransCanada is Botching the Job on Keystone XL Pipeline (Priscilla Mosqueda – Texas Observer, 8/9/2013) TransCanada has long contended that Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built. But in East Texas, landowners are growing increasingly alarmed by what they’ve seen first-hand: multiple repairs on pipeline sections with dents, faulty welds and other anomalies. The Oklahoma-to-Texas…
Houston Environmental News Update August 20, 2013 CEC NOTES Save the Dates: Candidate Forum and Civic Engagement Workshop COALITION NOTES Is it the End for Deer Park Prairie? RDA Civic Forums: Environmental Challenges Facing the Houston Region Over the Next 25 Years Pledge Your Commute Solution Bayou Land Conservancy Semiannual Cruise Down the Creek Buffalo Bayou Park – Discovery of…