The North Houston (I-45) Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP) is a project of the Texas Department of Transportation. This planned reconstruction of Interstate Highway 45 north, between downtown Houston and the North Sam Houston Tollway, locally known as Beltway 8, also includes segments of connecting freeways. The project, as planned, is estimated to cost $7 billion. The Houston-Galveston Area Council’s Transportation…
The recently formed Texans for Responsible Aggregate Mining (TRAM) is a statewide coalition of member groups (including CEC member organizations Bayou Land Conservancy, Bayou City Waterkeeper and Air Alliance Houston) seeking to work with lawmakers, state agencies, and good-faith industry operators to create state standards for best management practices in the rapidly expanding Aggregate Production Operation (APO) industry, and adopt those standards…
Octavio Olvera is a senior at University of Houston-Downtown majoring in Marketing. He is set to graduate in the fall of 2021 and plans on working towards a master degree after graduation. He is very passionate and eager about growing his skills in digital media and is actively seeking to learn new skills to apply them in his future endeavors….