Featured With huge damages at stake, trial over waste pits to begin (Matthew Tresaugue–Houston Chronicle, 10/5/2014) A half-century ago, the owner and operator of a Pasadena paper mill sent its waste for burial to a site along the San Jacinto River. The black bisque of cancer-causing chemicals eventually leaked from the pits, turning these murky waters into one of the…
Featured Master plan for Memorial Park advances (Jocelyn Kerr – Houston Chronicle, 9/30/2014) The Memorial Park Conservancy, the Houston Parks and Recreation Department and the Uptown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone are working with the public to create a new long-range master plan for Memorial Park. The master plan will provide guidelines for reorganizing the park to improve access and traffic…
Houston takes lead with climate plan, Study claims Texas textbooks ‘distort’ climate change, Armand Bayou Nature center will celebrate 40th year, and much more!