Featured $1.5M project to increase salt water flow to NOAA (Chris Paschenko – The Galveston Daily News, 08/03/2011) Galveston beaches are undergoing construction as part of a $1.5 million project to help quadruple the amount of salt water being pumped to the National Marine Fisheries Service. The project will allow the fisheries service to fill about 150,000 gallons of seawater…
Featured Life abounds in Texas’ last surviving bit of coastal prairie (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 07/26/2011) The Nash Prairie, located about 60 miles southwest of Houston, is the last part of a 9 million acre landscape that used to stretch from Louisiana to south of Corpus Christi. The Nash Prairie was recently purchased by the Nature Conservancy to become…
Featured 136 Texas plants apply for new permits (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 07/12/2011) The EPA announced that the 136 industrial plants in Texas with state-issued permits have agreed to apply for new ones. The EPA regional administrator for Texas says that the companies are able to convert their permits without job losses. Some state officials and at least ten…