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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) wants to change the rules by reclassifying several categories of extremely dangerous radioactive waste so it goes into shallow burial, instead of deep underground as currently required for important safety...

The U.S. Forest Service has begun a public process that could protect our forests, grasslands, water, air, endangered species, game and non-game wildlife, recreational activities, scenic areas, solitude, quiet, and wilderness in East Texas. “...

Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton filed two lawsuits this year against two huge fossil fuel corporations, Valero and ExxonMobil, for serious pollution violations in Port Arthur and Baytown. While Ken Paxton is not a know environmental advocate,...

Austin Energy’s recently-announced Working Group to Update the Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan (Resource Plan) for early 2020 may open a door to even more cost-effective renewable energy and energy efficiency goals—with plenty of...

Sierra Club will be joining many of our partners next week in celebrating National Drive Electric Week from September 14-22! There will be events in Austin, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Houston, and Dallas, and other communities around Texas.

Shane Johnson, graduate of Standford University and native Austinite, joins the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter as a Clean Energy Distributed Organizer.

A three-judge panel of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), acting on behalf of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), rejected almost every single contention raised by several organizations on the proposal to expand the radioactive waste...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to abandon its determination that three areas around the largest and dirtiest coal plants in Texas--Luminant’s Martin Lake, Big Brown, and Monticello plants--are failing to meet the public health...

This morning, the Cameron County Commissioner’s Court tabled a proposal for a tax abatement agreement for the Annova LNG project.

The Sierra Club announced its intent to sue the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the failure to require a clean up plan for the continuing dangerous sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution in Rusk and Panola Counties.