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Last week, former Director of the Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club Dr. Ken Kramer was one of three Texans honored as “Rainmaker of the Year.” Dr. Kramer, who served as the Chapter’s first director from 1989 until his retirement in 2012, was honored for...

There are also a lot of Texans that are really angry about data centers - and rightly so! There’s a ton of proposed electrical infrastructure that might power them - from new gas plants to massive transmission lines. The bodies overseeing this...

October is Energy Awareness Month, with October 7th being Energy Efficiency Day. There are a number of activities happening these days in Texas around energy - and we want you to be a part of them.

Throughout Texas, there’s a growing belief that new development and growth in the form of data centers, AI facilities, and proposed transmission lines are being foisted upon primarily rural communities with little or no guardrails. Texans are seeing...

Next week, the Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs will hold a public hearing on the growing water demand of energy-intensive technologies, including data centers, in Texas.

On Monday, August 24, the Texas House Committee on Natural Resources will hold a public hearing in Weslaco to discuss some important issues about Texas water, including how the state plans for future water needs and what new water supply projects...

Gov. Greg Abbott is selling his latest electricity scheme as a way to lower Texans’ bills. But his proposal would force locally owned public utilities into the deregulated market - without the consent of their communities - and could deliver a...

PS pollution can come from hundreds or thousands of small sources across an entire watershed, the area of land that drains into the same river, lake, or other body of water.

Last month, Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, demanding further action on data centers. What happens next?

It was a year ago that a series of floods, beginning with the July 4th Central Texas Flood, devastated communities in the Hill Country area known as “Flash Flood Alley.”