ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES, MARCH 10 – 16
MAYORS AGREE ON PLAN TO HELP AIR QUALITY
Baytown Sun, 3/16/07
Houston Mayor Bill White and the mayors of six east Harris County cities met Thursday to iron out their differences and cool the friction created by White’s proposal to negotiate voluntary restrictions on benzene emissions at refineries in those cities.
HARRIS COUNTY MAYORS UNITE TO BATTLE POLLUTION
TEXAS NUCLEAR PLANTS COULD TRIPLE IN 10 YEARS
Houston Chronicle 3/15/07
The number of nuclear-powered generators in Texas could triple in the next decade with several new projects in the works.
TXU PICKS REACTOR TECHNOLOGY FROM JAPANESE COMPANY
TEXANS WANT MORE ENERGY SOURCES, SURVEY FINDS
Houston Business Journal, 3/16/07
A survey by Promark Research found that 93 percent of Texas voters strongly support the state government developing additional electricity sources to help meet the increasing demand for power in Texas.
MEMO: BAYPORT THREATENS WETLAND
Houston Chronicle 3/10/07
Waves generated by large ships traveling along the Houston Ship Channel and erosion are causing excessive sediment buildup of the popular Pine Gully in Seabrook, a Texas A&M University geology professor says.
AUSTIN CONSIDERED NATION’S TOP CITY FOR CLEAN ENERGY
Austin American Statesman 3/12/07
LAS VEGAS – In the 1970s and 1980s, cities across America bet their economic futures on recruiting banks, insurance companies and other white-collar employers to replace factory and farm jobs
ECKELS RESIGNS; EMMETT BECOMES NEW JUDGE
Pasadena Citizen 3/7/07
Eckels, who announced last month his intention to resign so he could take a position as a partner and lobbyist with the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, choked up somewhat as he passed out his formal letter of resignation to the four other members of the county’s governing body.
HARRIS COUNTY JUDGE HAS EYE ON MOBILITY, GROWTH
PARK AND RIDE SERVICE PLANNED TO HOUSTON
Baytown Sun 3/16/07
Baytonians who work in downtown Houston or anyone else looking for an easy link to that city may soon enjoy a park-and-ride bus service.
MOBILITY BONDS TOP ELECTION SLATE
METRO, CITY EXPLORE PEARLAND-MED CENTER ROUTE
DEVELOPER OFFERS TO ANTE UP FERRY FEE
VOTERS DEFEAT TEXAS CITY TAX ROLLBACK
Galveston County Daily News 3/14/07
TEXAS CITY – The drive to roll back Texas City’s tax rate lost in a special election Tuesday night.
FEDERAL JUDGE OVERTURNS GULF RED SNAPPER PLAN
Houston Chronicle 3/13/07
NEW ORLEANS – The current long-term plan to bring back red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico is inadequate – based on false assumptions and faulty reasoning – and the U.S. commerce secretary must approve a better one within nine months, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4625419.html
NO ANSWERS FOR SPIKE IN GALVESTON DOLPHIN DEATHS
Houston Chronicle 3/13/07
GALVESTON – A large increase in the number of dolphins stranded on beaches in the Galveston-Sabine Pass areas over the last two weeks is puzzling marine mammal experts.