{"id":269482,"date":"2025-10-01T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:25:08","slug":"houston-named-second-least-green-city-in-the-us-wallethub-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269482\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston named second least \u2018green\u2019 city in the US: WalletHub report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Houston may be known for its big energy, but when it comes to being green, the Space City is near the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/tech\/2025\/10\/01\/epas-job-is-to-protect-americas-air-water-and-land-heres-how-a-shutdown-affects-that-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/tech\/2025\/10\/01\/epas-job-is-to-protect-americas-air-water-and-land-heres-how-a-shutdown-affects-that-effort\/\">EPA\u2019s job is to protect America\u2019s air, water and land. Here\u2019s how a shutdown affects that effort<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/WalletHub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/WalletHub\/\">WalletHub<\/a> looked into which cities promote a \u201cgreen\u201d lifestyle and compared 100 of the largest metro cities in the country across environmental friendliness and sustainability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Its findings led Houston to be ranked 99th out of 100, right before Glendale, Arizona. Houston was also the lowest-ranked city in Texas, with Dallas coming in at 86th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston also scored lowest on the number of greenhouse gas Emissions per capita, despite having a decent percentage of green spaces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No Texas cities cracked the top of the list, though Austin came closest at 26th<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">To see the full report and how WalletHub compared other cities, <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/most-least-green-cities\/16246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/most-least-green-cities\/16246\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Houston may be known for its big energy, but when it comes to being green, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[746,140206,7007,24421,4345,12578,358,3187,14847],"class_list":{"0":"post-269482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-environmental-safety","10":"tag-green","11":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-recycling","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-wallethub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115299609973007674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}