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84th Texas Legislature Regular Session update, March 9, 2015

You can read more on the Texas Senate News page, the Texas House of Representatives News page, and from the Texas Tribune. (If you have a favorite source of info, please share!) House Bills HB 2100: Relating to the creation of the East Houston Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, or taxes. HB…

84th Texas Legislature Regular Session update, March 10, 2015

The deadline for filing most bills is Friday, March 13. Next week, we’ll provide a list of the remainder of the environmental bills that have been filed. For now, we have updates about some legislation that CEC member groups have been following–and telling us about. Well over 40 people attended the State Park Funding Event last Thursday and were treated…

Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region: March 9, 2015

Featured What Dallas can learn from Houston’s Buffalo Bayou for the Trinity River project (Mark Lamster – Dallas Morning News, 2/26/2015) “How do you transform the flood plain of a neglected urban waterway into a grand public park and metropolitan gateway? Dallas has been struggling with this challenge for more than 20 years, making incremental progress on the Trinity River…