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Back in 2008, when Robby Robinson moved to Houston and found a job on Craigslist, as a mechanic for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, he figured he’d stick to fixing the nonprofit’s fleet of boats. “Ask me what I do now,” the BBP’s current director of operations says in a thick, north Georgia drawl, “and I’ll tell you I’m a glorified trash man.” It was in 2003 that the BBP first deployed a boat, called the Mighty Tidy, to gather up the flotilla of junk streaming down Buffalo Bayou toward Galveston Bay using a hydraulic conveyor-belt mechanism. That vessel—named in a contest by a local fourth-grader and painted a disarming powder-pink—turned out to be a dud, breaking down repeatedly and proving clumsy and inefficient at cleanup. “Those things just don’t work,” Robinson says as he gestures to pieces of the now-scrapped vessel scattered across the grass at BBP’s sprawling field office in the Second Ward. The trash is just unending. Buffalo Bayou, White Oak Bayou, just between the two of them drain about 227 square miles of urban streets. Down... (w Is Buffalo Bayou's Trash Picked Up?)
Terrell Derrick Funches, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old female were charged Tuesday for the Dec. 7 death of Altaf Hussain Malik, 44, Houston Police said. lessTwo people have been charged with the capital murder of a Richmond man who police say was stabbed to death while trying to sell his car. Terrell Derrick Funches, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old female were ... moreImage 2 of 3Two people have been charged with the capital murder of a Richmond man who police say was stabbed to death while trying to sell his car. Terrell Derrick Funches, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old female were charged Tuesday for the Dec. 7 death of Altaf Hussain Malik, 44, Houston Police said. lessTwo people have been charged with the capital murder of a Richmond man who police say was stabbed to death while trying to sell his car. Terrell Derrick Funches, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old female were ... moreImage 3 of 32 charged in death of Richmond man found in dumpster after meeting to sell Audi A8Back to GalleryTwo people have been charged with the capital murder of a Richmond man who police say was stabbed to death while trying to sell his car in Houston's Third Ward last year.Terrell Derrick Funches, 20, and an unidentified 16-year-old female were charged Tuesday for the Dec. 7 death of A...
Photo: Jason Fochtman, Staff Photographer Waste Management suspends Houston service due to weatherBack to GalleryWaste Management has suspended trash collection in the Greater Houston region Tuesday due to icy weather conditions."We are continuing to monitor service areas impacted across Texas and Oklahoma," the Houston-based company said in a statement. "Your service may be delayed or postponed until weather conditions improve."RELATED: Waste Management to pay employee bonuses amid tax cut benefitsCities affected include Houston, Pasadena, Conroe, Austin and San Antonio.Most Popular...
Inc., to excavate 212,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediments from the San Jacinto River Waste Pits.Pruitt visited the Superfund site outside Houston last month following historic rains and flooding from the storm, meeting with local environmental activists who had campaigned for years for approval of a cleanup plan.Pruitt has said cleaning Superfund sites is among his top priorities, even as he has worked to delay and rollback a wide array of environmental regulations that would reduce air and water pollution. Often Pruitt has done so directly at the behest of industries that petitioned him for relief from what they characterize as overly burdensome and costly regulations.At the waste pits, both companies opposed the expensive cleanup, arguing that a fabric and stone cap covering the 16-acre site was sufficient. The former site of a demolished paper mill that operated in the 1960s, the island in the middle of the San Jacinto River is heavily contaminated with dioxins — chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.“International Paper respectfully disagrees with the decision by the EPA,” said Tom Ryan, a spokesman for International Paper. He said removing the existing protective cap “could result in significant damage to public health and the local environment.”Pruitt’s decision triggers the beginning of what could be months of negotiations between EPA and the two companies to reach a final settlement. If the companies refuse to comply with Pruitt’s order, EPA could sue in federal court to require compliance.The Associated Press reported Sept. 2 about the risks from flooding a... (The Denver Post)
