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Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool, which grades the top 50 utilities that generate the most electricity from coal and gas across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and...

The Port of Cork has cut ties with United States firm NextDecade and dropped the Cork LNG terminal project. The project would have imported up to 3 million tons of LNG per year from NextDecade’s proposed export Rio Grande LNG facility at the Port of...

The Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Texas Campaign for the Environment, and JOLT, are calling on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to resign immediately for his role in spearheading a lawsuit that sought to throw out duly...

Since the passage of HB 2771 in 2019, the Sierra Club knew it was only a matter of time before the TCEQ would leap at the chance to permit the discharge of fracking wastewater into our rivers and streams. Last year, the TCEQ submitted an application...

In late December, Texas’s transmission grid operator, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), released three important reports that deal with generation, transmission and adequacy of our electric grid. There's promising growth for new solar...

The Texas Sierra Club has been keeping tabs on what's going on with the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard for nearly two decades, during all of which the United States Fish and Wildlife Service couldn't decide how to protect the species. Now the US Fish and...

This summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others, and the police violence that erupted onto peaceful protestors demanding justice, demonstrated that police departments do not protect everyone. Black lives continue to...

Any 2020 reflection can't help but start with COVID-19 and the corresponding scramble to hold community together in unprecedented times. While some cities swung to Green-New-Deal-inspired principles of just transition to guide recovery efforts (not...

Read Shane Johnson's, our Clean Energy Distributed Organizer's, end of the year reflection for 2020.

Read Cyrus Reed's, our conservation director and soon-to-not-be interim director, reflection for 2020 as we close in on the new year.