BP CEO SEES HARD ROAD AHEAD FOR OIL INDUSTRY Houston Chronicle 11/9/07 Tight supply and undaunted demand mean oil will be expensive for the foreseeable future, BP CEO Tony Hayward told Houston business leaders Thursday. HOUSTON MAYOR GIVES POLLUTERS 6 MONTHS TO CLEAN Houston Chronicle 11/6/07 Mayor Bill White on Monday gave industrial polluters six months to clean up their…
TEXAS A&M PROFESSOR BRYAN W. SHAW NAMED TO STATE ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD The Dallas Morning News 11/1/07 Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Texas A&M professor Bryan W. Shaw to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the body that directs the state’s environmental agency. POWER PLANT TO CAPTURE CARBON DIOXIDE Houston Chronicle 11/2/07 A Houston-area power plant will become the site of…
METRO PANEL VOTES FOR LIGHT RAIL ON ALL FIVE PLANNED LINES Houston Chronicle 10/18/07 The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted today on a Richmond-Wheeler route for its controversial University light rail line. But that was almost an anticlimax: It also voted to put light rail – not Bus Rapid transit – on all five planned lines. ENERGY PACKAGE IS HUNG…