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Governor Greg Abbott recently signed Senate Bill 601, creating the Texas Produced Water Consortium at Texas Tech. This bill might seem kind of niche, so you might have some reasonable questions: What is produced water anyway? What is this “...

The TCEQ was court ordered to hand over thousands of pages of documents to Sierra Club that they've been withholding from the public regarding their changes in rulemaking for ethylene oxide emissions, a super carcinogen. Rather than complying and...

ERCOT issued an energy conservation request on Monday, June 14, asking individual consumers to reduce their energy use until Friday, to help prevent the possibility of future power outages. ERCOT’s request on Monday was issued shortly after the end...

The Lone Star Chapter is super excited to welcome our Summer 2021 Communications Intern, Hannah Lopez (she/her)!

While the Sierra Club is already busy working on our 2021 Legislative Scorecard, we wanted to give a quick wrap-up of the tumultuous rollercoaster ride that was the 87th Legislative Session, which officially wrapped up on Memorial Day.

There’s only a few days left until Sine Die, the official end of the 87th Texas Legislative Session. With not much time to waste, let’s get into the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Roddy Hughes, a Senior Campaign Representative for the Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign and good friend and co-worker of the Lone Star Chapter, recently visited the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast region and Southwest Louisiana: two neighboring regions that...

On Tuesday, May 11, HB 4146, a bill that would protect pristine Texas waterways passed the Texas House with a bipartisan vote.

Less than 20 days. That’s how much time is left in the Legislative Session, but for many bills “the end” is a lot sooner: May 13. That is the last day for the House of Representatives to pass a House bill on second reading, and Friday is the last...

The Texas House of Representatives passed HB 2716, which would restore the ability of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department to intervene in pollution permit applications submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).