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  • 10.12.2022 -- Houston City Council has approved a Nature Preserve Ordinance that will protect 7,423 acres of natural habitat in City parks
  • 02.10.2022 -- Biden Moves to Build Coast to Coast Network of Electric Car Chargers
  • 09.09.2021 -- Advocates charged over Houston plan to add 100 electric vehicles in shift to gasoline-free fleet
  • 09.09.2021 -- Biden infrastructure bill could give a jolt to EV charging [1]
  • 09.07.2021 -- Schedule a Free A/C Tune-Up with CenterPoint
  • 08.05.2021 -- President Biden Announces Steps to Drive American Leadership Forward on Clean Cars and Trucks
  • April 2021 -- American Cities Climate Challenge Feature on Houston, TX [11]
  • 04.06.2021 -- What’s Going on with the Sunnyside Solar Farm? [10]
  • 01.14.2021 -- Sunnyside will soon be home to the largest urban solar farm in the country [9]
  • 01.13.2021 -- 'This is historic': City agrees to lease Sunnyside landfill for solar farm, charging $1 a year [1]
  • 11.30.2020 -- A Massive Solar Farm May Be a Boon to Houston's Sunnyside. Or Not. [1]
  • 07.25.2019 -- Houston Unveils First Draft of City Climate Action Plan [1]
  • 09.24.2018 -- Shortlisted Teams Selected to Proceed to Final Stage of Reinventing Cities Competition [8]
  • 02.07.2018 -- EPA Awards Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport Over $1M for Clean Shuttle Buses [7]
  • 11.16.2017 -- Reinventing Cities : C40 Launches Competition For Global Cities to Pave the Way to a Sustainable Future [6]
  • 10.10.2017 -- Houston Will Get Hit With Another Harvey. Now’s The Time For It To Get Ready. [5]
  • 07.25.2017 -- UK bypasses Donald Trump to discuss climate change with US city mayors directly [4]
  • 07.11.2017 -- Climate Cities: Can Urban America Save Paris Agreement? [3]
  • 03.30.2017 -- Google Says Houston is U.S. City With Most Potential for Solar Energy [2]
  • 11.24.2015 -- Outgoing Sustainability Director Sees A Greener Houston Ahead [1]

For green news prior to 2015, please contact greenhouston@houstontx.gov.

[1] Houston Chronicle
[2] neighborhoods.com
[3] livescience.com
[4] The Independent (UK)
[5] Huffington Post
[6] Reinventing Cities
[7] epa.gov
[8] C40.org
[9] KHOU Channel 11 Houston
[10] Houstonia Magazine
[11] cityrenewables.org

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