Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It
Courting Disaster is a publication of Earthjustice, Environment America, Clean Water Action, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Southern Environmental Law Center.
This report provides 30 case studies from around the U.S. of how the Clean Water Act has been misapplied since 2001.
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Page 29 depicts an oil spill in west Texas that occurred on August 24, 2000 when 126,000 gallons of oil was spilled into the tributary to Ennis Creek.
Click here to view "On the Nesting of Certain Birds in Texas" printed in 1915 and and get a keen sense of how wildlife, bushes, and trees filled our landscape a hundred years ago. Also check out "A Report Upon Investigations Made in Texas in 1891". Both are interesting reading and well worth your taking a minute to see what Texas was like not so very long ago. Articles are courtesy of Gary Garrett, Harris County Flood Control District.
"Faces in the Crowd" an article featured in the April 30, 2008 Houston Chronicle spotlights Board member and the BPA's "Eyes on the Bayou" representative Eric Ruckstuhl's on going work to halt the threat of invasive species in our waterways.
"Linking Wetland Alteration to Coastal Flooding: predictors, consequences and policy implications" by Samuel D. Brody with Sammy Zahran, Wesley Highfield and Himanshu Grover of the Environmental Planning & Sustainability Research Unit, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Houston Business Journal, January 21, 2005 - "Houston should act now to protect the hidden beauty of its bayous" by Mary Ellen Whitworth, Executive Director, BPA
Texas Highways, February 2005 - "A View from the Bayou" by Kathryn Jones. A delightful article about BPA's own Don Greene (former Past President of BPA) on a canoe trip down Buffalo Bayou.
Houston Chronicle June 13, 2003 -"Two years after Allison, Houston has reached a watershed moment" by Kevin Shanley, Chairman of the Board of BPA on watershed management and flood control.
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