Featured Cy-Fair event focuses on benefits of trees (Flori Meeks – Houston Chronicle, 2/11/2014) Northwest Harris County gained more than 1,000 new trees earlier this month during the Houston Area Urban Forestry Council’s 2014 Tree Planting Competition. The event was co-sponsored by the Harris County Flood Control District, which actively encourages tree-plantings along the county’s bayous and stormwater detention basins….
Featured Texas to take over greenhouse gas permitting from EPA after long, bitter battle with feds (Ramit Plushnick-Masti – Associated Press, 2/4/2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas authority over greenhouse gas permitting on Tuesday, ending a long, often bitter battle between the federal agency and the state. EPA’s administrator in Dallas, Ron Curry, said he signed the paperwork…
Featured Planned highway could cut into prized Katy Prairie (Matthew Tresaugue, Houston Chronicle, 1/23/2014) Mary Anne Piacentini’s dream is for the Katy Prairie, a wide-open grassland some 40 miles west of Houston, to become a living reminder of a once common and bountiful landscape. For decades, her Katy Prairie Conservancy has purchased land here with the goal of preserving it…