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Vistra made no changes to its Texas coal fleet, which includes the Martin Lake coal plant; the nation’s largest source of sulfur dioxide pollution and mercury pollution. Martin Lake is the source of ongoing violations of sulfur dioxide public health...

Communities across the country applaud a ruling by a federal judge requiring EPA to follow the law and investigate civil rights complaints in a timely manner. The decision resulted from a lawsuit filed by community-based groups in 2015 against the U...

San Antonio needs community members to push the city towards an equitable future. San Antonians deserve prompt and adequate COVID-19 relief and energy justice. But how do we get there, and how can you help? Our San Antonio organizer Greg Harman has...

The Sierra Club Political Committee of Texas has completed its full slate of state and local endorsements for the 2020 General Election! Endorsements include candidates running for Railroad Commissioner, State Senate, and State House, in addition to...

The big picture of renewable energy in Texas generally looks pretty optimistic. In Texas’s main electric grid known as ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which covers about 80 percent of the state, renewable energy and storage continue...

In 2019, despite many concerns expressed by the Sierra Club and others, HB 2771 was signed into law, which requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to ask the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to run a...

We tried to warn the Texas legislature about the dangers of storing low-level nuclear waste in West Texas years ago. Predictably, the majority of them shrugged us off- and now there is a much more serious predicament unfolding. We told them it was...

The Texas Commission On Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will be holding a series of virtual public meetings in October to get input from the public about ways to improve their public notice process in order to comply with Title VI of the 1964 Civil...

Sierra Club filed a new report with legal comments advocating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognize that Southwestern Electric Power Company’s (SWEPCO) Pirkey Coal Plant near Longview is worsening the region’s existing Sulfur...

Last week, Hurricane Laura made landfall at the Texas-Louisiana border, an area that is consistently battered with the dual dangers of natural disasters and chronic pollution from the petrochemical industry. Almost exactly this time last year, the...