Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region: June 15, 2015

Featured Work underway to grow plants, bring Lake Livingston’s fishery back to life (Shannon Tompkins – Houston Chronicle, 6/10/2015) “The future of Lake Livingston’s largemouth bass, crappie, sunfish and the dozens of other aquatic wildlife species dependant on healthy, robust shallow-water habitat may be brighter because of what’s growing in almost two-dozen 5-foot-by-16-foot tanks scattered on school campuses in towns…

Houston Environmental News Update June 9, 2015

CEC is excited to welcome Morgan Greeves, a summer intern who will be developing CEC’s volunteer program. We are also excited about the great events that we are planning. Read on for more information. CEC NOTES Welcome Summer Intern Morgan Greeves The CEC is delighted to introduce you to Morgan Greeves, our volunteer coordinator for the summer. Morgan comes from…

Houston Environmental News Update June 2, 2015

A week ago, we were marveling at how much water that had just been dumped on us. The media was thinking about it too, with articles discussing the tragedies and damage, as well as lack of federal funding, park closures, delays in park openings, mountains of debris, the impact of flood control projects in reducing damage, politics, meteorology, dams, and…