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The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) is holding 13 flood outreach meetings during the month of August. These meetings are open to members of the community so that they may submit comments to ensure that the new programs meet the needs of Texans...

Environment Texas, Sierra Club, and the Port Arthur Community Action Network announced back on May 22 that they planned to sue Valero Energy Corporation and the Premcor Refining Group, Inc., in federal court for illegally releasing nearly two...

For each of the more than 50 vetoes dealt by Abbott this session, he explained his reasoning, calling most of them “good bills gone bad.” That was certainly true of SB 1804 by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, his veto of HB 1059 shows that he still has a long...

The City Council of Bryan unanimously approved a decommissioning budget to help pay for the retirement costs of the Gibbons Creek Generation Station, a 470 MW coal plant located about 20 miles east of Bryan.

A new report released today highlights the reputational damage that would plague any bank or investor that supports three fracked gas export terminals proposed for Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

The Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter is looking to hire an experienced and passionate organizer to advocate for and help plan clean energy campaigns.

The Texas grid operator ERCOT received a notification from the City of Garland that the Gibbons Creek Generating Station will be retired permanently as of October 23, 2019.

The Sierra Club and local residents are gearing up to fight Waste Control Specialists' application that would allow their low-level radioactive waste storage facility to accept some additional 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste from the...

An economic analysis by Synapse Energy Economics was released and found that CPS Energy could save almost $1 billion dollars for San Antonio residents by relying on renewable energy and storage alternatives versus operating both Spruce 1 and 2 coal...

In 2015, after a long battle, we celebrated the closing of major loopholes in the Clean Air Act (CAA) which had allowed exemptions for industrial facilities’ release of harmful air pollution during episodes of startup, shutdown, or malfunction (SSM).