Featured From Refining Black Gold, A Black Dust And Maybe A Pollution Problem (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 12/9/2014) “Think of the industry in the Ship Channel and big refineries with flares burning off chemical vapors might come to mind. But how about pollution from coal? Huge piles of coal… It’s called petroleum coke, a more concentrated form of coal….
Featured Academics aren’t enough – How can we teach character traits? (Zachary Hodges, Duncan Klussmann, Steve Rosencranz – Houston Chronicle, 12/1/2014) “Read Boles, the president of Southwest Shipyard, on the Houston ship channel, is challenged to find shipyard workers who can perform exacting barge repair tasks… he’s not seeing enough applicants he can count on to show up on time,…
Featured Tighter smog limits would force stricter controls in Houston (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 11/26/2014) “Houston and large parts of Texas and the nation would need to clamp down harder on smog-forming pollution under a stricter standard proposed by the Obama administration Wednesday… The proposed rule also could affect smaller towns and rural areas for the first time. Some…