Featured Coalition wants better air near Houston port communities (Ingrid Lobet – Houston Chronicle, 10/29/2013) The Port of Houston, the second-busiest in the country, is preparing for a large increase in cargo traffic thanks to growth in petrochemicals and the Panama Canal expansion. Now neighbors in some of the city’s portside neighborhoods are organizing for the first time to address…
Featured Texas industries’ climate-changing pollution far surpasses other states’ (Texas Climate News, 10/25/2013) Texas industrial facilities led all other states by a huge margin in their release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases in 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week. The EPA report, based on data provided by about 8,000 facilities across the nation,…
Featured Midtown street a sign of things to come (Robin Foster – Memorial Examiner, 10/15/2013) Street construction in Houston has reached a crossroads, and a project in Midtown was at its center on Thursday, Oct. 10. The project, which rebuilt portions of Bagby and Pierce streets in Midtown, is the first in Texas to be certified by the Greenroads Foundation…