Featured Texas, Home To Big Oil, Takes Shine To Solar Power (Chris Baltimore – Planet Ark, 12/21/2010) Solar power is starting to become more popular in Texas. Texas has not been known to be most environmentally friendly state with all of the Big Oil companies, but an emphasis on solar power could help to change that. http://planetark.org/wen/60636 Senators To EPA:…
Featured Environmental Groups Take On Oil Giant (Laurie Johnson – KUHF News, 12/14/2010) Environment Texas and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corporation for violating the clean air act by releasing illegal amounts of pollutants into the air. Luke Metzger, the director of Environment Texas, says more than 15,000 people live within a three mile radius of the…
Featured New Plans In The Works For The Big Thicket (Wendy Siegle – KUHF News, 12/06/2010) http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1291611342) The Big Thicket National Preserve is located about ninety miles northeast of Houston. It is a biologically diverse space with over 180 bird species and 50 kinds of reptiles. The Sierra Club wants to safeguard the rare ecosystem and protecting the preserve’s biodiversity…