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Motley Fool
April 17, 2018
Over the past several quarters, Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) has presented investors with an awfully attractive investment case. While earnings suffered a bit in 2016 and early 2017 from weak refining margins across the U.S., the company continued to churn out cash that it then gave back to investorsÃâà...
Chron.com
April 17, 2018
Workers this week are trying to gauge the extent of Hurricane Harvey's damage on Harris County Flood Control District infrastructure, a network of 2,500 miles of bayous, creeks and drainage ditches designed to drain water out of Houston's flat topography and into Galveston Bay. The flood control districtÃâà...
The Port Arthur News
April 16, 2018
When the Houston Ship Channel is closed, arriving vessels must wait at anchor in Galveston Bay and outgoing ships must remain at berth, tying up the terminal as well as the vessel. Delays in waterborne commerce mean extra fuel consumption by the vessel, increased environmental impact, inefficient useÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 16, 2018
Hurricane Ike ravaged Galveston in 2008 and touched off a fierce battle over whether to rebuild the city's destroyed public housing. A decade later, less than half of it has been replaced. The prolonged saga offers a cautionary tale for Texas as it launches the long-term recovery process after HurricaneÃâà...
Chron.com
April 4, 2018
The When and If and the Privateer Lynx will not be available for general tours, but will offer special sail tours through Galveston Bay on each day of the festival. Festival tickets are $10 admission or $20 admission plus on-board tours for adults, $5 or $10 for youth ages 7-12 and free for children 6 and under.
Tyler Morning Telegraph
March 30, 2018
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on topwaters, Down South Lures and MirrOlures. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. Black drum are fair to good in the Ship Channel on crabs. WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to goodÃâà...
Kitco News
March 30, 2018
27 Attempting to restart demex unit EXXON Baton Rouge, LA 502.5 Feb. 27 To restart crude unit next week MARATHON Galveston Bay,TX 459 Feb. 27 Restarts resid hydrocracker PBF ENERGY Chalmette, LA 190 Feb. 27 Gasoline unit to be shut by weekend TOTAL Port Arthur 225.5 Feb. 26 Fails to startÃâà...
The Texas Monitor
March 29, 2018
In a case that's before the state Supreme Court now, a local navigation district in Galveston Bay decided it has the authority to lease oyster beds in state-owned waters to a company owned by friends of some district commissioners. “Navigation districts cannot go into the seafood business,” the State ofÃâà...
KLTV
March 29, 2018
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on topwaters, Down South Lures and MirrOlures. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. Black drum are fair to good in the Ship Channel on crabs. WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to goodÃâà...
TIME
March 22, 2018
Nearly half a billion gallons of industrial wastewater mixed with storm water surged out of just one chemical plant in Baytown, east of Houston on the upper shores of Galveston Bay. Benzene, vinyl chloride, butadiene and other known human carcinogens were among the dozens of tons of industrial toxinsÃâà...
Houston Business Journal
March 8, 2018
The home — on nearly an acre at 427 Bayridge — is believed to be the oldest surviving house on Galveston's North Bay, though its exact age is unknown, according to a press release from John Daugherty Realtors. The house also is known as the McElvogue-Kennedy home because it originally was theÃâà...
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
March 7, 2018
... safeguard their operations in the event of another massive hurricane. They agreed on the need for a proposed $14 billion barrier project known as the “coastal spine” and hope federal funding would help make it happen. The project would include a system of levees and gates in the Galveston Bay area.
KHOU
March 7, 2018
The power of Hurricane Harvey surely compounded the problem, but it doesn't take that kind of flooding intensity for pollution to build, according to Sarah Gosset, the Water Quality Manager, with the Galveston Bay Foundation. “It's very certainly a tragedy when you see this level of trash and debris," GossetÃâà...
Bay City Daily Tribune
December 31, 1999
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good on topwaters and soft plastics around mullet and shad while wading the south shoreline. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. TEXAS CITY: Redfish are fair on live shrimp around the flood gates. Black drum are goodÃâà...
