Air Quality
Posted on Friday, January 5, 2007
By Ella Tyler
The 80th regular session of the Texas Legislature begins Tuesday, and Houston area legislators are ready to fight for clean air. (more…)
By Ella Tyler
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality filed proposed amendments to the State Implementation Plan for the Dallas/ Fort Worth and the Houston/Galveston/Brazoria ozone non-attainment areas yesterday. (more…)
Rice University Press Office
Rice University released a report Wednesday that recommends immediate action to reduce levels of four toxic air pollutants because exposure to them poses a high risk to community health. (more…)
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved penalties totaling $1,310,268 against 58 entities at its meeting on August 23. The largest penalty was $700,000 against Valero Refining-Texas, LP, in Harris County for 16 violations, including exceeding emissions limits, failure to properly report emission events, and failure to prevent nuisance conditions. (more…)
By Charles Stillman, Citizens League for Environmental Action Now
Lacking leadership from the federal government, cities and local municipalities have taken it upon themselves to confront the issue of climate change in their own communities. (more…)
By Ella Tyler
The Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention recently released a report concerning the ways Harris County and the city of Houston handle citizen complaints about air pollution. In 2004, more than 2,000 citizen complaints were made. (more…)
The members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved penalties totaling $926,275 at their meeting on May 31. Included in the total fine is a penalty of $336,566 against BP Products North America, Inc, in Galveston County for air violations. (more…)
Purpose: The prevention of lung disease and promotion of lung health.
2030 North Loop West, Suite 250
Houston, Texas 77018
(713) 629-5864/fax: (713) 629-5828
houston@texaslung.org
Purpose: To build community support for a coordinated planning process to make improvements to Houston’s quality of life.
3015 Richmond, Suite 201
Houston, Texas 77098
(713) 522-0590/fax: (713) 523-3057
hsweetnam@blueprinthouston.org
(CLEAN)
Purpose: To educate and encourage citizens to protect children, future generations, and endangered species from environmental abuses.
5120 Woodway, Suite 9004
Houston, TX 77056
(713) 524-3000/Fax: (713) 529-6637
info@cleanthinking.org
Purpose: EIH is the environmental education, outreach, and research component of the University of Houston system. It serves as a contact point for the community to access the expertise and resources of the university. (more…)
(GHASP)
Purpose: The Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP) works to persuade government and corporate officials to prevent smog. GHASP seeks to accomplish its mission by being the most credible advocate for clean air in the Houston region; by supporting efforts to educate the public; and by directly engaging government officials, community leaders, the media and industry on regional air pollutionissues. (more…)
Purpose: To improve quality of life in the Houston region by providing independent research and communications for Houston’s tomorrow. The Institute explores practical approaches to urban policy questions to provide the region’s decision makers with the cutting edge research and analysis they need to make good choices about Houston’s future.
Purpose: H-GAC is a voluntary association of 132 local governments and local elected officials in the 13-county Gulf Coast Planning Region of Texas. Its service area is 12,500 square miles and contains over 4.9 million people. H-GAC’s mission is to serve as the instrument of local government cooperation, promoting the region’s orderly development and the safety and welfare of its citizens.
Purpose: Working with the city, county, state, and community to preserve, enhance, increase, and celebrate area parks and green space; speaking out when parks are threatened; planting trees and wildflowers across the Houston area; initiating park preservation programs.
Purpose: To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Purpose: Dedicated to the orderly and organized planting of street trees along residential and commercial thoroughfares in Houston.