Featured Threats to prairie show tension between growth, flood protection (Mike Snyder – Houston Chronicle, 5/16/2016) “Imagine a sponge. Now imagine that you had access to something that would make this sponge – an inherently absorbent object – many times more absorbent. Something that supercharged its capacity to soak up and hold liquid. That’s a fair description of the grass…
GO VOTE! Vote early by May 20, 2016, or vote on Election Day on the 24th. Depending on where you live, you may be voting to determine who will be on the ballot in the fall for railroad commissioner, state representatives, the State Board of Education, various district judges, county commissioners, constables, justices of the peace, county party chairs, and,…
Silent and Deadly: Benzene Leaks From Pipelines Have Been Quietly Adding to the Ship Channel Toxic Mix (Dianna Wray – Houston Press, 5/10/2016) “Midway through his presentation, about just-discovered potentially dangerous levels of benzene in their neighborhoods, Jay Olaguer saw the blank looks on the faces in the audience and realized they weren’t getting it. Olaguer, the air-quality science program…