Featured $75 Million Repair Job To Dams Critical For Protecting Houston (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 2/25/2016) “The two dams hold back the Addicks and Barker reservoirs that lie on opposite sides of the Katy Freeway at Highway 6. Right now, there’s not much water in either reservoir. But during big storms and hurricanes, they hold millions of gallons…
Featured Jacinto City passes anti-idling ordinance (airCurrent News, 2/17/2016) “Last week the City of Jacinto City, Texas became the third Houston-area city to pass an ordinance banning heavy truck idling. Jacinto City joins Galena Park and Houston among the cities that are saying ‘No!’ to deadly diesel emissions. Air Alliance Houston has been advocating for anti-idling ordinances in Houston for…
Featured Removing derelict crab traps saves marine life (Shannon Tompkins – Houston Chronicle, 2/7/2016) “Since 2002, volunteers mucking around in the winter-chilled shallows of Texas coastal bays over a 10-day period each February have, conservatively, saved 2 million blue crabs and untold millions of other marine life from dying wholly wasteful deaths. They have done it by removing more than…