2020 Year in Review-What do you think?

At the end of 2020, we asked out audience what they believe have been the most significant environmental accomplishments, controversies, issues, news, and events in the greater Houston region in 2020. This is what you told us:

• Black Lives Matter: Environmental justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion are all front-of-mind
• Buffalo Bayou: notable/controversial projects and proposed projects from the Turning Basin to beyond the Barker and Cypress Reservoirs
• Zoom
• Publication of the City of Houston’s Resilient Houston and Climate Action Plan
• A dead-heat–with 2016–for the hottest year on record 
• Record-breaking Atlantic Hurricane Season – the Houston region narrowly dodged the major storms this year, but that won’t always be the case
• I-45 Expansion Project
• The Election
• COVID-19: Reduced travel during stay-at-home orders = fewer miles driven and decreases in pollutants
• Creation of Harris County’s Community Flood Resilience Task Force
• Environmental Rollbacks (tracked by the New York Times) 
• Bayou Greenways: city park renovations, ebike stations and green bike lanes, renovated and new mobility bridges
• Opening of the Houston Botanic Garden
• Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary