Throughout the month of April and into the first week of May, look for the EarthShare of Texas display and tear-off coupons at the check-out stands in any Texas H-E-B and Central Market stores. As a member of EarthShare of Texas , CEC (and several of CEC member organizations, including Galveston Bay Foundation, HARC, Air Alliance Houston, Bayou Preservation Association,…
Normally, the introduction to today’s newsletter would highlight Earth Day and CEC’s involvement in Earth Day since 1970, and the amazing efforts of our member organizations. Instead, this week I’d like to talk about flooding. I hope each of you remain safe and relatively dry during this week’s storms. In light of a recent report by the Union of Concerned…
Featured Texans in Congress Largely Silent on Hurricane Protection (Neena Satija and Kiah Collier – The Texas Tribune, 4/17/2016) “After nearly a decade of bickering and finger pointing, Texas scientists and lawmakers finally seem to agree that building some version of a ‘coastal spine’ — a massive seawall and floodgate system — would best help protect the Houston region from…