Featured Houston’s Population Growth Could Mean An Increase In Extreme Heat (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 6/8/2015) “Our story starts not in Houston but in Phoenix. It’s where the American Meteorological Society held its annual meeting earlier this year. Public health researcher Kathryn Conlon told an audience about a project funded by NASA that looked at Houston. Conlon found…
Featured Is a lack of federal funding to blame for Monday’s flooding along Brays Bayou? (Editorial – Houston Chronicle, 5/28/2015) “…Floods are nothing new for the neighborhoods near those muddy waters, but after Tropical Storm Allison the federal government united with the Harris County Flood Control District to improve water retention and flood prevention in the Brays Bayou watershed. The…
CEC sincerely hopes you made it through the rains safely. CEC NOTES Photographer Jim Olive: How to Get Your Photos on the Front Page. Have you struggled to get your environmental story on the front page of the newspaper? Do you have the tools necessary to make it happen? Environmental non-profits face the challenge of money, manpower and the right…