ECONOTES 2010-09-15: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured
- Houston, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico Receive $923,000 to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (EPA News, 9/8)
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that the City of Houston and the City of Albuquerque will receive grants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as increase energy commission. Houston will use the money to develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure, implement a bike-share program, and improve the existing bike infrastructure.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/c34128e9add006c68525779700656170!OpenDocument - Highlands residents discuss dioxin fears (Ben Tinsley – The Baytown Sun, 9/7)
A meeting in the Highlands took place to allow residents to express their fears over a highly toxic dioxin in the water as well as ask questions about the San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund Site. There has been much concern over local corporations illegally dumping poisons into the local water. The questions and issues will be passed on to the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://baytownsun.com/news/article_3b4af1f2-baf9-11df-9ec1-001cc4c03286.html - TCEQ approves fines totaling $716,608 (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality News, 9/15)
The TCEQ approved $716,608 in penalties against 65 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations, including agricultural, air quality, petroleum storage tanks, municipal waste discharge, and more.
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/comm_exec/communication/media/CommissionersAgenda091510
EcoNotes
- 15 September
- TCEQ approves fines totaling $716,608 (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality News)
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/comm_exec/communication/media/CommissionersAgenda091510
- TCEQ approves fines totaling $716,608 (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality News)
- 14 September
- Deadline set on refiners to comply with air rules (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/7201303.html - Official: EPA, Texas working on permit solution (Ramit Plushnick-Masti – The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/14/AR2010091405901.html
- Deadline set on refiners to comply with air rules (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
- 10 September
- Forster’s tern shows off its fishing expertise (Gary and Kathy Adams Clark – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/7195258.html - Go! Go! Go! Score one for recycling! (Barbara Kessler – ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/09/10/go-go-go-score-one-for-recycling/ - Federal energy spending still favors fossil fuels, but a shift is underway (ABC13 News)
http://www.greenrightnow.com/ktrk/2010/09/10/federal-energy-spending-still-favors-fossil-fuels-but-a-shift-is-underway/
- Forster’s tern shows off its fishing expertise (Gary and Kathy Adams Clark – Houston Chronicle)
- 9 September
- Report on disaster doesn’t impress BP’s critics (Purva Patel – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/7192389.html
- Report on disaster doesn’t impress BP’s critics (Purva Patel – Houston Chronicle)
- 8 September
- Houston, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico Receive $923,000 to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses (Guidry News)
http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000029265 - Gulf tempest dampens county (John Tompkins – The Facts Covering Brazoria County)
http://thefacts.com/news/article_95d400ac-baf7-11df-97f3-001cc4c002e0.html
- Houston, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico Receive $923,000 to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses (Guidry News)
- 7 September
- Highlands residents discuss dioxin fears (Ben Tinsley – The Baytown Sun)
http://baytownsun.com/news/article_3b4af1f2-baf9-11df-9ec1-001cc4c03286.html - Houston, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico Receive $923,000 to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (EPA News)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/c34128e9add006c68525779700656170!OpenDocument - Feds find no dead zones caused by BP’s oil spill (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7190422.html - Whooping cranes may return to old home (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/livinggreensa/after_60-year_absence_whooping_cranes_may_return_to_louisiana_102303014.html?c=y&page=1#storytop - Environmentalists Concerned By Plans for Section of Grand Parkway (Wendy Siegle – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1283900007
- Highlands residents discuss dioxin fears (Ben Tinsley – The Baytown Sun)
- 6 September
- Houston Scores Federal Grant to Reduce Transportation-Related Emissions (Wendy Siegle – KUHF News)
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1284069400
- Houston Scores Federal Grant to Reduce Transportation-Related Emissions (Wendy Siegle – KUHF News)
- 5 September
- Bedbugs? Other Strange Invaders Threaten Much Wider Damage (Peter Applebome – The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/nyregion/06towns.html?_r=1
- Bedbugs? Other Strange Invaders Threaten Much Wider Damage (Peter Applebome – The New York Times)
- 2 September
- TPWD Awards Grant for Houston Archery Park (TPWD Press Release)
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20100902a&nrtype=all&nrspan=2010&nrsearch= - Prairie Conservancy has issues with Parkway plan (David Crossley – Houston Tomorrow)
http://www.houstontomorrow.org/livability/story/prairie-conservancy-has-problems-with-parkway/?utm_source=Houston+Tomorrow+Growth+News&utm_campaign=497fbf06b2-Houston_Tomorrow_Livability_News_090710&utm_medium=email
- TPWD Awards Grant for Houston Archery Park (TPWD Press Release)
- 31 August
- EPA Disapproves Components of TCEQ’s Air Permitting Program (EPA News)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/91F7018C5CA54BF185257790006D8803
- EPA Disapproves Components of TCEQ’s Air Permitting Program (EPA News)