Featured SIERRA CLUB: Shell Deer Park, Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou cut major ‘upset’ emissions by 95 percent (The Pasadena Citizen, 11/23/2013) Sierra Club and Environment Texas announced that Shell Oil Company and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company have each cut illegal air pollution from major “upset†events at their Gulf Coast plants by about 95 percent. Those reductions are even more…
Featured Advocates: Saving Matagorda Bay Could Take Legal Action (Neena Satija – The Texas Tribune, 11/14/2013) More than 100 environmental advocates and fishermen along the Gulf Coast met Wednesday to discuss the uncertain future of Matagorda Bay, a major destination for tourism, recreation and commercial fishing that has suffered greatly in recent years due to a lack of freshwater inflows…
Featured Prop 6 coalition splits on path forward (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 11/7/2013) The ambitious plan to tap Texas’ savings account to address the state’s water needs brought together unlikely allies: environmentalists and chemical makers, farmers and builders, Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic lawmakers. On the day after the passage of Proposition 6, the successful coalition began splintering over…