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Are you passionate about climate justice? Are you looking to hone your communication skills and learn the ins-and-outs of nonprofit work? We have just the internship for you. The Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter is seeking an Environmental...

Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter has signed a joint letter to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas requesting that the Commission order the suspension of utility shut-offs state wide during the Texas Public Health Emergency response to the...

After meeting for several hours on March 9 in a special joint meeting, members of the City of Austin’s Electric Utility Commission (EUC) and Resource Management Commission (RMC) recommended approval of a revised and improved Austin Energy Resource,...

In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed HB 2771. The bill (now law) directed the TCEQ to “get ready” for so-called “produced” oil and gas wastewater to be discharged in Texas. Produced water basically means the wastewater that comes back out of the...

Georgetown, Texas is a small city outside of Austin with big ambition: five years ago, it committed to powering itself with 100% renewable energy. Of course, no story is actually that simple. But Georgetown didn’t go wrong by switching to renewable...

Earlier this week, the Chair of the City of Austin’s “Electric Utility Commission Generation Resource Planning Working Group” released a draft update of the Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan through 2030 for discussion.

Local residents, the city of Port Isabel, and Sierra Club today filed suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorizing construction of the highly polluting Rio Grande LNG fracked gas facility and Rio Bravo Pipeline...

Brownsville Organizer Bekah Hinojosa traveled across Europe in December to confront the banks and decision-makers behind these fracked gas projects alongside our partners who are also working to stop the global buildout of oil and gas. We must take...

This is it. It’s 2020. It’s time to give it all you’ve got to elect people who will act in our best interests - from Washington to Austin. The Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter is seeking a volunteer who can commit 5-10 hours per week (or more) to...

When you track more than 2,500 individual votes, sometimes you don't catch every special circumstance. That's why we said in our 2019 Texas Legislative Scorecard we are open to adjusting the scores of Texas lawmakers after we published it. Well, the...