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January 5, 2015

Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region: January 6, 2015

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  1. Nature preserve on Galveston Island closer to fruition (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle, 12/29/2014)
    “A few years ago, wetlands that provided a home for coastal wildlife faced destruction to make way for a marina. Now an environmental group has carved out a preserve on Galveston Island that could eventually offer hiking and kayak trails. After more than six years of effort, Artist Boat has secured a grant that will allow it to purchase the final piece of a 367-acre section of what was destined a few years ago to be part of the largest residential development ever planned for Galveston.”
    www.houstonchronicle.com
  2. Turning city government green is paying off (Mike Morris – Houston Chronicle, 12/27/2014)
    “As Houston leaders push the counter-intuitive notion that the world’s energy capital can go green, and pledge ever-lower emissions goals for municipal operations, installing energy-efficient lighting and low-flow toilets can seem like hopelessly small measures. City data show a seven-year effort to retrofit municipal facilities with those types of energy-efficient upgrades is working, however. And that matters, since Mayor Annise Parker’s office says energy costs are the city’s third-largest category of spending, after employee salaries and benefits.”
    www.houstonchronicle.com
  3. East End Garden Attracts Pollinators to Urban Area (Laurie Johnson – Houston Public Media, 12/29/2014)
    “The corner of Harrisburg and Lockwood has been a busy one with a major light rail project taking over the area. But now that the construction dust has settled, that corner is also home to a special garden. The Lockwood Nature Garden Preserve used to be a used car lot. Now it’s an oasis of native plants, shrubs and grasses intended to attract pollinating insects and birds. Diane Schenke is president of the Greater East End Management District. She says the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service wanted to have more of a presence in urban parts of Houston. So they provided a $25,000 grant to the East End to create the garden.”
    www.houstonpublicmedia.org.
  4. Books, reports are tools in activist’s fight to preserve nature (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 1/3/2015) “For decades, Mannchen has been a singular force for the environment in and around Houston. Most of his work goes unseen, but it isn’t without impact. Beyond restoring native prairies, Mannchen has been in the middle of nearly every fight over how and where Houston should grow – from the building of an outer beltway around the region to a canal-and-pipeline project that would transport water from the Trinity River to the ever-expanding city and its suburbs. His concerns are laid out in hundreds of written comments filed with government agencies, mostly in the name of the Sierra Club.”
    www.houstonchronicle.com

EcoNotes

  • 5 January
    • Five things you need to know in Texas energy this week (Jordan Blum – Houston Business Journal)
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  • 4 January
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  • 2 January
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  • 31 December
    • R.A.K.I Computers Boasts 200 Tons of E-waste Recycled in 2014 Alone (KXXV News)
      www.kxxv.com
    • 2014 Year In Review: A Look At Toxic Spills And A Call For More Regulations (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media)
      www.houstonpublicmedia.org
  • 30 December
    • Climate Change Will Boost Diseases Like Asthma, Allergies, Dengue, Diarrhea (Carrie Feibel – Houston Public Media)
      www.houstonpublicmedia.org
  • 29 December
    • Nature preserve on Galveston Island closer to fruition (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle)
      www.houstonchronicle.com
    • East End Garden Attracts Pollinators to Urban Area (Laurie Johnson – Houston Public Media)
      www.houstonpublicmedia.org
    • Reliable alternative to water could ease economic, environmental issues for gas drillers (Eagleford Texas)
      http://eaglefordtexas.com
    • Slumping oil prices may pinch Energy Corridor (Annette Baird – Houston Chronicle)
      www.chron.com
    • I can breathe is more than a health or environmental statement (Ethel C. Fenig – American Thinker)
      www.americanthinker.com
    • Recycling old Christmas lights (Becky Parker – WDay News)
      www.wday.com
    • Wind Tree uses micro-turbine leaves to generate electricity (Suzannah Butcher – Planet Ark News)
      http://planetark.org
  • 28 December
    • Top 10 local environmental news stories for 2014 (Frank Maccioli – Examiner)
      www.examiner.com
    • Texas needs to incentivize solar power (Anne Clark – Houston Chronicle)
      www.chron.com
    • Texas pushing back as feds move to reduce coal-fired plants (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
      www.houstonchronicle.com
    • Cleaner Air, but Who Gets Credit? (Neena Satija – The Texas Tribune)
      http://apps.texastribune.org
  • 27 December
  • 22 December
    • Feds, Shell work closely on Arctic drilling plan, documents show (Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau – Express News)
      www.expressnews.com
  • 19 December
    • Lower oil prices could pinch natural gas export plants (Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau – Express News)
      www.expressnews.com
    • EPA puts off decision on methane-pollution regulations (Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Washington Bureau – Express News)
      www.expressnews.com