HARC has recently taken delivery of high-accuracy Lidar data flown in 2018 for the greater Houston-Galveston region. The dataset includes both elevation datapoints as well as building footprints.
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The City of Houston recently announced its Climate Action Plan that will bring together stakeholders from across the community to develop a variety of cost-effective energy efficiency, renewable energy and transportation measures that will reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions and uphold the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Energy of tectonic forces relentlessly reshaping the Earth’s crust can impart stresses in geologic formations that may build over time, perhaps suddenly released in a seismic event such as an earthquake.
The dynamic economy of Texas is intertwined with the energy industry and the many business enterprises that support it.
The drive to reduce emissions in oil and gas operations and industrial facilities has led to the expanding use of infrared imaging to “see” gases such as methane that are invisible to the human eye.
The City of Houston recognized the Galveston Bay Report Card program for its positive impact on the environment as part of its Keep Houston Beautiful initiative. A Certificate of Recognition was bestowed at the 33rd Annual Mayor's Proud Partners Luncheon held November 13, 2017.
The International Association of Business Communicators Southern Region recognized the efforts of the Galveston Bay Report Card program for its achievement in connecting science with the greater Houston/Galveston community.
If you are looking to install a combined heat and power, solar power system or any other distributed energy system that is larger than 10 MW in Texas, the interconnection process to connect the system to the grid can be complex.

HARC and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension recently released a project report through a grant from the Texas General Land Office Coastal Management Program.
HARC is assisting Purify Fuel Inc.
For many years governments around the globe have worked to regulate pollution generated through engine emissions, resulting in the need for better emissions testing worldwide. Exhaust emissions testing identifies the substances that form in an engine during combustion.
SERIDAS team members are writing a book. The book proposal is pending at Cambridge University Press. Following highly favorable review by the Cambridge editor it is now going through the customary review by outside experts.
The CH4 Connections 2015 Technical Program Committee deadline for accepting abstracts has been extended to April 28, 2015.
HARC's Stephanie Glenn, HARC fellow Jurgen Schmandt, George Ward (UT) and Michael Cohen (CO) will be traveling to Germany to hold a symposium, “Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands”, in Hannover, Germany in June 2015.
The CH4 Connections 2015 Technical Program Committee is accepting abstracts for the HARC and GTI conference until April 10, 2015. The conference will be held October 6-7, 2015 in The Woodlands, Texas.
HARC is partnering with the Galveston Bay Foundation to create the Galveston Bay Report Card. The Galveston Bay Foundation conducted an online survey about Galveston Bay’s health from July-December 2014.
During the month of February, the Benzene and other Toxics Exposure (BEE-TEX) study is being conducted in the Manchester, Galena Park, and Milby Park Neighborhoods. The primary goal of the BEE-TEX study is to demonstrate new technologies to measure air pollution.
Galveston Bay Report Card online survey allows Texans to express what issues are important about the bay.
HARC Research Scientist, Gavin Dillingham, Clean Energy Policy, is participating on the planning committee for the upcoming World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) Lab in Houston.
The Double Bayou Watershed Partnership will hold its sixth stakeholder meeting for the general public on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
HARC and Gas Technology Institute will host a CH4 Emissions: Collaborative Methane Emissions Solutions for the Natural Gas Community on September 23 and 24, 2014.
The EFD website now features a video magazine section, which includes a series of 'Ask the Experts' videos updated throughout the year.
In partnership with the Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), HARC is launching the Department of Energy’s State Energy Program Texas Industrial Energy Efficiency and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) grant.
HARC Research Scientist, Eduardo (Jay) Olaguer, Program Director, Air Quality Science, will perform work on modeling and measurements in support of the Uinta Basin Ozone Study.
HARC Research Scientists, Gavin Dillingham and Jennifer Ronk, team with SECO for the DOE Industrial Efficiency and Combined Heat and Power grant.
HARC Research Scientists, Gavin Dillingham and David Hitchcock, are implementing the City Efficiency Leaders project with SECO and SPEER.
The City of Houston partnered with HARC/GTRI to commission the design and an initial look at the feasibility of urban rooftop food production for downtown city-owned properties. A final report was published on November 25, 2013.
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HARC research and researchers featured in 6-part series focused on the health of coastal wetlands.

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On January 29, HARC’s headquarters won ULI Houston’s Development of Distinction.