Featured Houston Area Huge Winner In State Money For Water (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 7/23/2015) “Millions of gallons fresh water flows across the Lake Livingston dam. It joins water from Lake Houston and Lake Conroe to eventually be used in thousands of homes. But the demand is growing with so many people moving here. Billions of dollars is…
Featured The EPA Has a New Tool For Mapping Where Pollution and Poverty Intersect (Heather Hansman – Smithsonian, 7/14/2015) “Open up the Environmental Protection Agency’s new EJSCREEN tool, click into the map and pull up your neighborhood. Are you exposed to higher then average amounts of particulate matter? Or are you close to bunch of Superfund sites ridden with hazardous…
Happy Shark Awareness Week! Have you ever been curious about sharks in the region? The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the Texas coast, is host to a variety of sharks. The Sandbar Shark is a regular visitor at Stetson Bank, but you may also see Nurse Sharks, Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks, and even Whale Sharks on any visit to…