Rice U. Says Its Hurricane Plan for Houston Better Than $20B Coastal Barrier July 30, 2019 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune For about a decade, two of Texas’ top universities have pushed dueling plans to protect the Houston-Galveston region from hurricanes....
Texas Would Lose Billions if Another Major Storm Hits Coast, Report Says May 28, 2019 Housing sales in Texas would drop, gasoline prices would increase and the state would lose hundreds of billions of dollars...
Not all Texas Coastal Residents on Board with Proposed Storm Barrier December 18, 2018 A proposed Texas coastal barrier is drawing backlash from some Gulf Coast residents and the state’s land commissioner wants more...
Army Corps, Texas Officials Propose Sweeping Hurricane Protection Plan October 26, 2018 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Following years of research, studies and public debate, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the state’s...
Army Corps Preparing its Own Hurricane Protection Plan for Houston October 4, 2018 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast...
Houston Eyeing Designer Bonds to Pay for $15B Ike Dike August 30, 2018 By Jack Kaskey A massive dike to hold back storm-driven floods surging in from the Gulf of Mexico was first proposed after Hurricane...
Chemical Industry Calls for $14B Gulf Coast Storm Barrier March 6, 2018 By Jack Kaskey Chemical companies are pressing federal officials to spend billions of dollars on a coastal flood control system near Houston to...
Idea of Texas Coastal Barrier Resurrected After Harvey January 11, 2018 A new study suggests if the Houston area continues to boom for 60 years and sea levels rise, a direct...