AIRBORNE PARTICLE LEVELS ON THE RISE Houston Chronicle 5/11/06 The level of fine particle pollution that makes up soot in east Houston is dangerously close to exceeding federal limits, state officials acknowledged Wednesday. BP REFINERY IN TEXAS CALLED BIGGEST POLLUTER Yahoo News.com 5/7/06 HOUSTON – The nation’s worst polluting plant is the BP PLC oil refinery where 15 workers died…
By Ella Tyler The Houston Outdoor Group and the Piney Woods Wildlife Society are each sponsoring day trips to the Big Thicket on Saturday, May 13. The Big Thicket seems like this impossibly mysterious place in East Texas.
In 2004, Texas ranked second in the nation for number of ID theft victims and Houston was the top city in Texas for such crimes. Most ID theft is not electronic but depends upon stealing documents, mail tampering, or digging through trash and dumpsters.