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On today's Hello Houston, we discuss the Environmental Protection Agency eliminating rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants with Jennifer Hadayia and Thelisa Lavergne of Air Alliance Houston.

Next, we turn to film and hear Hello Houston producer Garrett Bohlmann and longtime Houston-area film critic Joe Leydon talk about the 30th anniversary of acclaimed Houston native filmmaker Wes Anderson's first film, Bottle Rocket.

In the second hour, David Brockman, a Christian theologian and nonresident scholar with the Baker Institute's Religion and Public Policy Program, shares his thoughts on students being required to read Bible passages as part of a new statewide reading list for Texas public school students.

And finally, Houston Public Media's Galveston County bureau reporter Julianna Washburn tells us about the growing existential threat coral reefs are facing in the Gulf as water temperatures along the Texas coast continue to rise.

And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Ernie Manouse talk about today's top stories at the top of each hour, including federal immigration agents shooting and injuring a Venezuelan man in Austin, and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo joins us to explain why she’s calling out Commissioner Tom Ramsey over his vote on the county’s property tax increase.