It’s always exciting to see an environmental news article in our local media outlets. It feels like such articles are more frequent and more prominent. Today is an excellent example: three above-the-fold, front-page articles about the environment in the Houston Chronicle: EPA limits toxic refinery emissions–New rule will require monitoring of air quality near oil and gas plants, by Susan…
Featured Houston Fortunate to Have Juan Parras as an Environmental Leader (Texas Clean Air Matters, 9/25/2015) “Earlier this month, Juan Parras, founder and director of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (Tejas), was recognized as the 2015 recipient of the Robert Bullard Environmental Justice Award by the Sierra Club. Juan has worked for decades in Houston and along the Gulf Coast…
Last time Houston saw a lunar eclipse, in April, nobody told me about it beforehand, and I was disappointed not to know. (Lucky for me, I was out for a jog at dark-thirty in the morning, and managed to see it.) I don’t want you to think that CEC didn’t give you adequate warning, so I’m telling you now about…