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 Plains, High Plains and Trans-Pecos, Mountains and Basins. (more…)
The Urban Harvest Houston Farmers’ Market is hosting a Farm Table Dinner at Brennan’s of Houston on Tuesday, May 6. Tickets are $85. Proceeds benefit Urban Harvest and the culinary scholarship fund of Les Dames d’Escoffier. (more…)
The spring meeting of the Environmental Educators’ Exchange (EEE) will be Wednesday, May 7th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH). (more…)
Appalachian Treasures, a multi-media presentation on mountaintop removal and its critical social and environmental justice impacts, will be featured at a free open-to-the-public event on Tuesday, May 6 at 7:30 pm at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2515 Waugh Dr. (more…)
The Endangered Species Media Project, in partnership with the Memorial Park Conservancy, will be hosting HISD classes in day-long trips to Memorial Park during the week of May 12 to 16. (more…)
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 chief of staff and a North Texas tollway official to the state Transportation Commission, filling the vacancy left by Ric Williamson’s death and replacing San Antonio member Hope Andrade.
RURAL OPPOSITION GROWS FOR TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR
ENVIRONMENTALISTS BLAST FAILED CLEANUP
Baytown Sun 5/2/08
A coalition of local and state environmental groups blasted federal and state regulators.
JUDGES OK INDUSTRIAL WASTE WELL IN MONTGOMERY CO.
Houston Chronicle 4/30/08
Two administrative law judges have recommended that state environmental officials approve a Houston company’s permits to pump industrial waste into an underground well in east Montgomery County, despite widespread opposition.
EMINENT DOMAIN THREATENED FOR QUINTANA LAND
Brazosport Facts 4/28/08
A major energy company is considering running an underground petrochemical pipeline from offshore rigs to the inland market through one of several possible routes under Surfside Beach and Quintana.
RESEARCHER GIVES COUNTY A CLEAN BILL
Brazosport Facts 5/1/08
Brazoria County has significantly better air quality than surrounding counties in the greater Houston area, a researcher told a group gathered for the Brazoria County Petrochemical Council Responsible Care luncheon Wednesday.
STATE RULES ISLE LEAD LANDLORDS STAY UNNAMED
Galveston County Daily News 5/1/08
The Texas Attorney General’s office ruled the county health district doesn’t have to release names of landlords whose residences are contaminated with lead.
STATE: BAYOU’S BACTERIA EXCEED STANDARD
Galveston County Daily News 5/1/08
A state geoscientist said Dickinson Bayou testing stations show bacteria levels above clean-water standards up to 90 percent of the time.
ENDANGERED TURTLE NESTS ON GALVESTON BEACH
Galveston County Daily News 5/1/08
A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle laid 109 eggs near 39th street. It was the first island nesting of the season.
SOARING FOOD PRICES BRING CHANGES TO YOUR CHILD’S SCHOOL LUNCH
Houston Chronicle 4/27/08
Leaders of Houston-area school districts expect hefty food price increases to hit school cafeterias in coming months.
FOOD PRICE HIKES FUEL ANTI-ETHANOL MOVES IN US
ROCKEFELLERS PUSH EXXON MOBIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY
Houston Chronicle 4/30/08
Members of the Rockefeller family took a fight with Exxon Mobil public Wednesday, challenging the oil giant spawned by their namesake to split the roles of chairman and CEO and focus more on renewable energy.
ROCKEFELLERS CALL FOR CHANGE AT EXXON MOBIL
BASICS: NOBLE EAGLES, NASTY PIGEONS, BIASED HUMANS
New York Times 4/29/08
Biobigotry is the persistent and often irrational desire to be surrounded only by those species of which one approves.
