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For Sierra Club, every year is an election year. In our most recent statewide leadership elections, Juan Mancias, Brandon Morton, and Andrew Balinsky were elected to the Executive Committee that governs the Lone Star Chapter.

Yesterday, Sierra Club joined an uncontested comprehensive agreement in a proceeding before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, which will determine whether Xcel Energy can change electricity rates.

After some delays caused by federal rules from Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - the Texas General Land Office (GLO) finally released last month their draft “CDBG Mitigation Action Plan” on how to spend about $4.3 billion in federal Harvey and...

TCEQ proposed a rule that would incorporate federal standards on oil and gas wastewater discharge for produced wastewater, including both direct discharges and discharges from centralized wastewater treatment plants.

Today, the Sierra Club released its 2019 Texas Legislative Scorecard, ranking every member of the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate on their environmental voting record in the 86th Texas Legislature.

This month, ERCOT released the December installment of its Capacity, Demand and Reserves Report, usually referred to as the “CDR.” ERCOT had a rather sunny disposition: reserves (meaning the amount of extra generation capacity produced at our...

Meet Shaneal Harun, our new intern!

A lawsuit challenging illegal flaring under the Clean Air Act from the James Lake Gas Plant in West Texas has secured penalties and significant pollution reductions for a plant that state and federal regulators have failed to address.

EPA is holding a hearing in Dallas on December 9th on a supplemental proposed Texas Regional Haze Plan. If this feels like deja vu all over again, its because this proposal is a third attempt by EPA here in Texas to concoct a rule that might stick...

Texans have the opportunity to influence the work of the Sunset Advisory Commission by submitting comments to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department by December 2!