Featured Why A Conservation Group Needs Millions In Less Than A Week To Preserve Prairie (Florian Martin – KUHF News, 8/13/2013) Deer Park may be known to most as housing dozens of oil refineries. What few know is that it also houses the “platinum standard of prairies.†This may be the most diverse 50-acre patch of prairie left in the…
Featured Whooping Crane Case Could Affect State Water Supplies (Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune – KUHF News, 8/11/2013) As drought conditions and dry forecasts persist across Texas, lawyers will argue a case in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday that could have major implications for water supplies in the state — and for natural resource…
Featured Armand Bayou Nature Center Receives 50th Solar Energy Donation from Green Mountain Energyâ„¢ Sun Clubâ„¢ (PR Web, 7/31/2013) Green Mountain Energyâ„¢ Sun Clubâ„¢ has dedicated its 50th solar energy system to Houston area non-profit nature preserve, Armand Bayou Nature Center. The nature preserve received a donation that added three solar arrays to its campus. The rooftop installations on its…