The deadline for filing most bills is Friday, March 13. Next week, we’ll provide a list of the remainder of the environmental bills that have been filed. For now, we have updates about some legislation that CEC member groups have been following–and telling us about. Well over 40 people attended the State Park Funding Event last Thursday and were treated…
Featured What Dallas can learn from Houston’s Buffalo Bayou for the Trinity River project (Mark Lamster – Dallas Morning News, 2/26/2015) “How do you transform the flood plain of a neglected urban waterway into a grand public park and metropolitan gateway? Dallas has been struggling with this challenge for more than 20 years, making incremental progress on the Trinity River…
Discussions about the budget continue, and legislators continue to file bills. Bills of environmental note relate to transportation funding, a new state pollinator, electric railways, conservation grant programs, urban transit districts, air quality fees, desalination, Global Climate Change Commission, mineral rights, public utilities, and reporting wastewater spills. You can read more on the Texas Senate News page, the Texas House…