December 10, 2013

ECONOTES 2013-12-10: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region

Featured HARC helps Houston plan for climate-change impacts on municipal operations (HARC News, 11/21/2013) What should Houston’s city government do to get municipal infrastructure, policies and personnel ready – to plan and implement “adaption” measures in the parlance of climate-change discussions – because of projections of increased incidence and/or greater severity of such weather extremes? That’s a complex question that…

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November 30, 2013

ECONOTES 2013-12-03: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region

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…

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November 24, 2013

ECONOTES 2013-11-26: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region

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…

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