By Ella Tyler Texas has a great variety of rainfalls – 8 to 56″; elevations – sea level to 8500+’; and soil types; and therefore has about 5,500 plant species. The state has ten different environmental (or Vegetational) regions – Pineywoods, Gulf Prairies and Marshes, Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairies, Cross Timbers and Prairies, South Texas Plains, Edwards Plateau, Rolling…
HOUSTON OKS ‘GREEN’ ENERGY CODE FOR NEW BUSINESSES Houston Chronicle 4/30/08 Starting Aug. 1, new commercial buildings will have to meet energy-efficiency benchmarks through the use of “green” design, under a new energy code approved Wednesday by the City Council. PERRY NAMES A FORMER AIDE TO STATE ROADS PANEL Houston Chronicle 4/30/08 Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday named his former…
JUSTICES TURN AWAY EXXON MOBIL APPEAL Houston Chronicle 4/22/08 Exxon Mobil suffered a defeat at the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices refused to consider an appeal by the oil giant of a $112 million damage award in an environmental lawsuit. US HIGH COURT WON’T HEAR EXXON LOUISIANA APPEAL http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=48082 PLASTIC FEARS LEAD TO PULLING OF NALGENE, SOME BABY…