Featured Texas and carbon capture: A status report on power plants, policy and research (Texas Climate News, 05/15/2012) New coal regulations will require coal plants to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. Texas officials and others have been challenging the decision to designate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. These new regulations, as well as a decreased cost,…
Featured A Mother’s Day Message from Missy – A Special Sea Turtle (Sea Turtle Restoration Project, 05/09/2012) On April 27th, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle returned to Galveston to lay 103 eggs. This turtle was raised for one year at the NOAA sea turtle facility in Galveston and then released in 1989. She has returned to the island to make…
Featured EPA reconsiders: Matagorda not on list of smog violators (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 05/01/2012) The EPA announced that its initial analyses of smog pollution overstated Matagorda County’s emissions, so it will not join the list of Texas’ smog violators. This means that Matagorda County will not have the tighter rules for industrial pollution already that already affect eight…