Featured Memorial Hermann switches to reusable containers (Allison Wollam – Houston Business Journal – August 16, 2010) Memorial Hermann has found a way to be more environmentally friendly. Disposable containers have been switched for reusable sharps containers. This prevents an average of 600 disposable sharps from going to a landfill. This has drastically reduced the hospital’s carbon footprint as well…
Featured EPA Announces Nation’s Top 50 Green Power Organizations; City of Houston #4 on list (EPA Press release – August 2, 2010) http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/toplists/top50.htm Texas officials say they won’t implement EPA’s climate rules (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News- August 5, 2010) http://www.texasclimatenews.org/FeatureStories/8410TXofficialswontimplementEPAsrules/tabid/1765/Default.aspx Thousands sign on for $10 billion BP suit (Monica Hatcher – Houston Chronicle – August 6, 2010) http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7141799.html State…
Featured EPA rejects Texas’ challenge of finding on greenhouse gases (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News – July 30, 2010) http://texasclimatenews.org/FeatureStories/72910EPArejectsTexaschallenge/tabid/1760/Default.aspx Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been Dumping Site (Campbell Robertson – New York Times – July 29, 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/us/30gulf.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 Corps ‘crossed the line,’ suit alleges Agency is accused of avoiding environmental study on Galveston (Harvey Rice – Houston Chronicle…