Featured If Rains Refill Reservoirs, Can Texas’ Dams Hold Up? (Michael Marks – StateImpact, 11/26/2013) Recent rain and snow haven’t been enough to replenish Texas’ water supply. Years of drought have taken their toll on the state’s reservoirs, some of which remain nearly empty. Eventually, the reservoirs should fill back up. But it’s unclear if Texas’ infrastructure will be able…
Featured SIERRA CLUB: Shell Deer Park, Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou cut major ‘upset’ emissions by 95 percent (The Pasadena Citizen, 11/23/2013) Sierra Club and Environment Texas announced that Shell Oil Company and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company have each cut illegal air pollution from major “upset†events at their Gulf Coast plants by about 95 percent. Those reductions are even more…
Featured Advocates: Saving Matagorda Bay Could Take Legal Action (Neena Satija – The Texas Tribune, 11/14/2013) More than 100 environmental advocates and fishermen along the Gulf Coast met Wednesday to discuss the uncertain future of Matagorda Bay, a major destination for tourism, recreation and commercial fishing that has suffered greatly in recent years due to a lack of freshwater inflows…