Checking in on The State of Houston’s Environment

We continue our week-long series exploring "The State of Houston" with a conversation about the environment in Greater Houston. We talk with News 88.7 Energy and Environment Reporter Dave Fehling.

We discuss concerns about clean air and clean water, new efforts to monitor chemical releases, ongoing disputes over landfills and other encroachment of our urban landscape into the rural landscape that surrounds it, and concerns about the impact of fracking (including earthquakes reported in North Texas, and the repercussions of the Denton fracking ban). We also talk about Houston’s recycling program and discuss other efforts to reduce carbon emissions in a community reliant on industry.