Featured Bayou Greenways 2020 project gets $7.1 million infusion from Deepwater Horizon funds (Shelby Hodge – Culture Map Houston, 1/21/16) “The Houston Parks Board is celebrating the announcement that the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council has selected its Bayou Greenways 2020 project as recipient of a $7.1 million grant from a fund established in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The…
Featured Pasadena Refinery Linked To Scandal In Brazil Needs A New Pollution Permit (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 1/18/2016) “Even though it’s not the biggest refinery along the Houston Ship Channel, the facility known as the Pasadena Refining System has attracted attention here and internationally as well. It is one of the smaller ones, but it is disproportionately responsible…
Featured It’s Houston versus Texas in a looming court battle over climate rules (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News, 1/14/2016) “…in a looming court struggle over federal climate-protection rules for power plants, it’s Houston versus Texas. A ruling is expected early this year on whether those Obama administration regulations, aimed at replacing many coal-fired plants with cleaner methods of producing…