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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approved a permit for air pollution from the Texas LNG fracked gas export facility. Texas LNG is one of three fracked gas export terminals proposed for the Rio Grande Valley, the cumulative...

We fought it before under Obama’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and now it is back under Trump’s. Only this time, we’re in the middle of a global health crisis and with very little time to put together comments to Trump’s BLM. But that won’t...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump on March 27th, 2020. The $2 trillion+ economic relief package was divided into a number of buckets, including a $1200 check...

Earlier this week, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) had what can only be described as a hair-pulling bad day at the office. The state agency regulates all-things oil and gas, (as well as coal mining, brine mining, uranium exploration, gas...

Nine local or state environmental and consumer groups have called in unison for the Austin City Council to reject a record 22% rate increase for Texas Gas Service set to be voted on at this Thursday’s Council meeting.

Yesterday, a coalition of Texas environmental groups sent an open letter to the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) urging them to take action to regulate gas flaring and venting that far exceeds state allowed limits. The letter also pressed the RRC to...

The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permitting the ongoing construction of the 428-mile Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline, despite a federal court order vacating the nationwide permit on which the...

What does it all mean? As I sit here contemplating one million COVID-19 cases, and nearly 60,000 deaths in the U.S., and more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, I admit it’s hard to understand what it all means for me personally, for our country, and...

Today, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to require Texas to crack down on excessive and unsafe air pollution in the communities around the coal-burning Martin Lake power plant in Rusk...

Texas has been sheltering-in-place, more or less, since mid-March in most major cities and throughout the state since March 31. The decline in economic activity combined with increased residential energy use, since people are staying home much more...