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PALACIOS It’s an overcast windy day as Ellis Chapman walks down a long pier facing Tres Palacios Bay. With his waders in hand, he wears a hat that says, “The Oyster Farm Company.”
This is a therapeutic escape for Chapman who makes the walk nearly five days a week, Monday through Friday. The pier looks out onto the small bay, which is an extension to the much larger Matagorda Bay located in the northern Texas Coastal Bend.
At the end of his walk, about 100 feet in both directions, are two growing systems used for oysters farming, or oyster aquaculture. From this vantage point, the systems appear to be nothing special and could easily be mistaken for trash or abandoned fishing material. However, a closer look into the shallow waters reveals cages of nearly perfect, fully grown Coastal Bend oysters.
As Americans get ready to hit the road all the summer travel they missed out on last year, one popular destination is state parks. And why not? The U.S.
In perhaps a sign that the country is revving back to normal, the number of people expected to travel 50 miles or more from home is expected to be a 60-perce
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Fifteen local companies were named among the city s top polluters.J. David Ake /Associated Press
Earlier this week, Deceleration, a local outlet reporting on climate justice and analysis, released an updated review of the top 15 climate polluters in the greater San Antonio area. Using data from the recently released 2019 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the most recent year emission data is available, they identified facilities resposible for the most commercial pollution in town.
Using factors like emission levels and the U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to determine the dirtiest culprits, the outlet named the JK Spruce Station, a coal-fired power plant south of town, as a super emitter, churning out nearly 6.8 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year nearly the same amount as the entire San Antonio transportation sector.