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EPA Grant Set To Help Redevelop Contaminated Sites In Underserved Houston Neighborhoods

Katie Watkins

Posted on May 27, 2021 · The sites include a former incinerator, thermal processing facility and two abandoned commercial high rises.

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Houston Matters

I-45 Widening Project Stalled Amid Lawsuit (March 15, 2021)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on March 15, 2021 · On Monday's show: Why the I-45 widening project is on hold, and a conversation with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Energy & Environment

Urban Planners Look To Houston’s Industrial Side For Parks And Green Spaces

Laurie Johnson

Posted on January 2, 2017 · Abandoned lots and crumbling industrial sites could become Houston's newest parks.

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Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s authority to mandate carbon emissions

Nina Totenberg, NPR

Posted on June 30, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

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Houston Matters

Benzene pollution, and presidential portrait history (May 13, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on May 13, 2022 · On Friday's show: Excess pollution at local refineries, the Obama portraits, and blending classical music and hip hop.

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Here’s how to celebrate Star Wars Day in the Houston area

Haya Panjwani

Posted on May 4, 2022 · Houston has a bunch of great places to celebrate Star Wars Day, here's just a few spots you can hit tonight or later this month.

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Turning a landfill in Sunnyside into a solar farm, and what motivates Gov. Abbott (April 25, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on April 25, 2022 · On Monday's show: A new project in Sunnyside plans to convert a landfill into the nation's largest urban solar farm. Plus, we take a closer look at what motivates Gov. Greg Abbott. And an expert outlines what we do and don't know about microplastics in our water -- and in our bodies.

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