2022
- April 22, 2022 -- Mayor Turner Announces TCEQ Approval of Largest Urban Solar Farm in the Country
- April 22, 2022 -- Mayor Sylvester Turner Signs Sweeping Decarbonization Policy for City Buildings
- March 23, 2022 -- Mayor Sylvester Turner Releases 2 Year Update For Resilient Houston And The Climate Action Plan
- February 23, 2022 -- Mayor Turner Announces Purchase of Electric Vehicles for City Fleet
- February 22, 2022 -- Houston Solar Co-Op Launches Following Anniversary Of Winter Storm Uri
- February 9, 2022 -- City of Houston and CenterPoint Energy Announce Transformative Initiative to Enhance Energy Resilience and Promote Transition to Sustainable Energy
- January 26, 2022 -- Mayor Turner Thanks EPA Administrator Regan for Bold Action Following Visit to Houston
2021
- December 17, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Honored for Leadership on Climate Action
- December 9, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Applauds Executive Order on Carbon Neutral Future
- November 17, 2021 -- City of Houston Receives “A” Grade for Citywide Climate Action and is Named New Generation of Climate Leaders on CDP 2021
- November 12, 2021 -- City of Houston Launches Second Annual Houston Climate Week
- November 5, 2021 -- Houston Celebrates Texas Arbor Day By Planting 1,000 Trees Along Greens Bayou on Harris County Lands Between Two Houston Parks
- November 3, 2021 -- Resilient Cities Network Launches New Tool to Help Cities Embed Equity in Climate Ready Urban Infrastructure Projects
- November 3, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Begins COP26 Visit By Meeting With Global Leaders to Highlight Climate and Resilience Work in Houston
- November 1, 2021 -- City Partners With University Houston-Downtown for Houston Climate Week 2021
- October 20, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Announces New Composting Pilot Program for City of Houston Residents
- October 20, 2021 -- Mayor Sylvester Turner Names Priya Zachariah as City's Chief Resilience and Sustainability Officer
- October 14, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Delivers Annual State of the City Speech to Sold-Out Crowd, Strikes Optimistic Tone About Houston's Future and Resiliency
- October 6, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Proclaims the First Wednesday of October 'Energy Efficiency Day' in the City of Houston
- August 25, 2021 -- Mayor Sylvester Turner Appointed to EPA Local Government Advisory Committee
- August 25, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Provides Update On Four-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey
- August 11, 2021 -- EPA Announces Houston Once Again Tops List of Green Energy Users
- August 5, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Issues Statement Supporting President Biden's Plan for Clean Energy
- August 4, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Announces Incentives for Green Development Launch
- July 16, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Invites Proposals for National Creative Placemaking Grant
- July 14, 2021 -- City of Houston's Youth Climate Ambassadors Begin Partnership with EcoRise
- June 30, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Announces Appointment of Interim Chief Resilience Officer
- June 25, 2021 -- Houston Awarded EPA Grant Program Will Focus on Creative Public Health Campaign
- June 17, 2021 -- EPA Recognizes Houston's Continued Leadership in Energy Innovation
- May 12, 2021 -- City of Houston Begins to Electrify Fleet Through a Partnership with Greenlots
- May 7, 2021 -- City of Houston Signs Agreements with Kingdom of Denmark Focused on Furthering Efforts Related to Water, Climate Change, and Resilience
- April 29, 2021 -- City of Houston Selected for U.S. Green Building Council 2021 LEED for Cities Local Government Leadership Program
- April 21, 2021 -- Houston Launches Citywide Solar Co-op to Celebrate First Anniversary of the Houston Climate Action Plan
- April 20, 2021 -- Mayor Turner's Statement on ExxonMobil's Carbon Capture and Storage Project
- March 1, 2021 -- Resilient Houston One Year Report Shows Progress in 2020
- February 2, 2021 -- North America's Largest Climatetech Incubator is on Track to Open its Second Location in Houston's Innovation District in Spring 2021
- February 1, 2021 -- bp and Uber Announce EV Charging and Planning Program with the City of Houston
- January 29, 2021 -- Mayor Turner, New Hope Housing, Star of Hope, & Wells Fargo Kick-Off Urban Prairie Resilience Project
- January 28, 2021 -- Mayor Turner Named Chair of Climate Mayors
- January 14, 2021 -- Houston City Council Approves Largest Brownfield Solar Project in the Nation
- January 5, 2021 -- New Data Reveals Neighborhoods Impacted by Urban Heat Island Effect
2020
- December 16, 2020 -- Mayor Turner Launches Vision Zero Action Plan to Eliminate Traffic Deaths in Houston by 2030
- December 16, 2020 -- Houston City Council Approves New Green Stormwater Infrastructure Tax Abatement Program and Updates Existing LEED Tax Abatement Program to Improve Houston's Climate Resilience and Sustainability
- November 30, 2020 -- Mayor Turner Announces the Urban Prairie Resiliency Project
- November 6, 2020 -- Houston Celebrates Texas Arbor Day by Planting 600 Trees at Buffalo Bend Nature Center
- October 5, 2020 -- Mayor Turner Named as Board of Directors Chair of Resilient Cities Network
- October 5, 2020 -- City of Houston and Resilient Houston Recognized with Top Awards for Planning and Resilience
- September 14, 2020 -- City of Houston Releases Climate Impact Assessment Projecting Future Houston Climate Trends
- September 11, 2020 -- Houston Climate Week Rescheduled to Sept. 14 - 18
- August 24, 2020 -- Houston Climate Week Kicks Off with a Conversation on How to Make Houston the Clean Energy Capital of the World
- August 13, 2020 -- City of Houston Launches Houston Climate Week to Commemorate Hurricane Harvey Anniversary
- August 6, 2020 -- City Council Approves Ordinance Changes to Encourage Walkable Development
- August 5, 2020 -- Houston/Harris County to Hold Largest Single-Day, Community-Led Heat Mapping Effort in U.S. History
- July 22, 2020 -- City of Houston Partners with bp to Advance Climate Action Plan Goals
- July 13, 2020 -- City of Houston's Office of Sustainability Seeking Input on Strategy to Make Electric Vehicles More Accessible
- May 18, 2020 -- Houston Integrates COVID-19 Response and Recovery into Resilient Houston Framework
- 04.30.2020 -- The City of Houston Commits to 100% Renewable Energy
- 04.22.2020 -- City Launches Houston's First-Ever Climate Action Plan on 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
- 02.12.2020 -- Mayor Turner Launches the Resilient Houston Strategy and Signs Historic Executive Order to Prepare the City for Future Disasters
- 01.30.2020 -- Mayor Sylvester Turner is Proud to Announce the Release of the Living With Water Houston Report
2019
- 11.04.2019 -- Mayor Turner's Statement Following President Trump's Decision to Withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement
- 10.11.2019 -- Mayor Turner Announces Landmark Partnership to Accelerate Transportation Electrification and Carbon Emissions Reductions
- 09.23.2019 -- City Hall Weekly Local Lunch Market Returns With the Fall
- 08.29.2019 -- City Selects Firm Proposing Solar Energy Farm at Former Sunnyside Landfill
- 04.04.2019 -- Mayor Announces Return of Curbside Glass Recycling, Joins Ribbon Cutting for New Recycling Facility
- 02.26.2019 -- Springtime Brings the City Hall Local Lunch Market Starting Wednesday
For press releases prior to 2019, please contact greenhouston@houstontx.gov.