Featured Zero Emissions Renaissance Comes To Houston, Of All Places (Nino Marchetti – Earth Techling, 9/3/2013) Smith Electric Vehicles is now involved in a pilot project in the Houston-Galveston, Texas area in collaboration with the Center for Transportation and the Environment replacing diesel delivery vehicles with all-electric medium- and heavy-duty models. Funded in part by a $2.43 million grant from…
Featured Houston air quality continues to improve; Ozone pollution declines despite population growth (EPA News, 8/28/2013) The EPA is proposing to approve the State of Texas’ plan for the Houston area to attain the 1997 standard for ground-level ozone pollution by 2018. This means EPA believes the emissions-cutting measures in the state’s plan have put the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area on track…
Featured Whistleblower, Landowners: TransCanada is Botching the Job on Keystone XL Pipeline (Priscilla Mosqueda – Texas Observer, 8/9/2013) TransCanada has long contended that Keystone XL will be the safest pipeline ever built. But in East Texas, landowners are growing increasingly alarmed by what they’ve seen first-hand: multiple repairs on pipeline sections with dents, faulty welds and other anomalies. The Oklahoma-to-Texas…