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Matt and Cyrus take a walk to discuss what goes on in the early days inside the palatial Texas Capitol, including committee assignments, the budget, and bills.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) approved the request from the Texas Municipal Power Authority (TMPA) to permanently mothball the Gibbons Creek power plant, a 470 megawatt (MW) coal plant located just a few miles east of Bryan/...

Environmental Integrity Project releases new report: Utility data made public for the first time in 2018 document pollution of groundwater with toxic chemicals at all 16 TX power plants where records are available.

Late last year, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) predicted that energy supply would only have an 8.1% reserve margin in 2019. With another coal plant set to mothball, what's the new number?

Dr. Ken Kramer will present “The Water Future of Texas: Seeking Sustainability.” Dr. Kramer’s presentation will be followed by a screening of Saving Atlantis.

Now that (most) of the elections are done, it's time to hold our elected leaders accountable!

Together with conservation groups across the Greater Houston-Galveston region, we offer these comments and concerns to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), General Land Office (GLO), and the decision-makers who support the currently proposed...

It is unusual when a diverse group of stakeholders that includes the Sierra Club, Texas Industrial Energy Consumers, Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor, and Public Citizen agree on anything, but in this...

If you are a member of the Sierra Club, you are eligible to vote in our Executive Committee elections. We need your help to elect our leaders!

The TCEQ is expected to decide at its Dec. 12 public meeting whether to grant the city of Port Isabel, Laguna Vista, and several local residents a contested case hearing (CCH), which is a formal hearing to protest the state permit that will allow...