Protecting Texas’ coastline

Texans enter every hurricane season fearful they could face the next Harvey, Ike or Rita. And Texans living along the state’s 370-plus-mile coast are looking for new strategies to safeguard their communities.

Much of the attention has focused on building the “Ike Dike,” a system of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay. The state’s Coastal Resiliency Master Plan also proposes improvement projects along the entire Texas coast to help restore the natural environment.

The Texas Tribune hosts “Protecting Texas’ coastline” at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Tuesday, June 18. Alejandra Martinez, the Tribune’s environmental reporter, will moderate a conversation about efforts to protect our coast and what we need to know before the next hurricane season.

Speakers include:
Jim Blackburn, Professor in the Practice of Environmental Law in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Rice University
State Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi
Kristen Schlemmer, senior legal director and waterkeeper, Bayou City Waterkeeper
Dr. Kiersten Stanzel, executive director, Coastal Bends, Bays & Estuaries Program

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