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In 2011 the topic was a controversy inside the halls of Texas’s lead environmental agency. But this week the environmental group Climate Central raised the alert again on sea-levels impacting Galveston, as well as many other coastal cities in the United States.
(Video: KTRK 13 News)
ALSO: Researcher: Rising seas to put Galveston 25 percent underwater (Chron.com)
LOCAL AREA HEADLINES:
- Woman suddenly switches to guilty plea in drunk driving trial (KTRK 13 News)
- Houston police find 22 suspected illegal immigrants in apartment (Chron.com)
- At ‘Diploma Mill’ Students Can Graduate High School In Two Weeks Or Less (KUHF Public Radio)
- Dine out, Do good: Houston Restaurant Weeks begins (KHOU 11 News)
- New plan to improve Eleanor Tinsley Park (KPRC 2 News)
- Activists demonstrate for Social Security expansion at Cornyn’s Houston office (Your Houston News)
- Toddler found wandering alone in Third Ward neighborhood (KPRC 2 News)
- Business owner saves child from locked day care van (KHOU 11 News)
STATE HEADLINES:
- Texas Women’s Health Program Claims Decline (Texas Tribune)
- Obama orders review of chemical plant rules in response to West explosion (KPRC 2 News)
- Whistleblower suit: Hospitals defrauded Medicaid (Austin Statesman)
NATION & WORLD:
- Lawmakers introduce bills to reform domestic surveillance (Chron.com)
- To ’60s Civil Rights Hero, Math Is Kids’ Formula For Success (KUHF Public Radio)
- Congress Sends Student Loan Bill To Obama (KUHF Public Radio)
- Gun research being kept in the Dark Ages: Our view (USA Today)
