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By the end of this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission plans to release the draft environmental impact statements for several LNG projects proposed for South Texas. Here's how you can involved in the international resistance against this...

Austin is moving closer to its renewable energy goals with another solar contract, this time a plant to be located southeast of Plugerville! When the project is completed in 2020, the utility will generate more than 52 percent of all energy demand...

This summer, the EPA designated Bexar County — where asthma rates are nearly twice the state average — as being in “non attainment” for its high levels of unhealthy ground-level ozone (smog). But instead of acknowledging the designation and working...

Do you remember when local heritage tree ordinances were under attack? Remember the horrible bathroom bill? How about the bill that eliminated certain tax incentives for wind energy? Or the racist SB 4 - the “show me your papers” bill? Early voting...

Stuart Henry was not afraid to get his feet wet. On the contrary, Henry worked as an environmental lawyer and activist for over 40 years in Austin. He led the "Citizens Against Water Taxes" campaigns in 1976 and 1981, resulting in the defeat of...

Editor's Note: The comment deadline for the proposal has been extended by one month to Nov. 19, 2018. Submit your comment saying NO to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today!

This summer, President Donald Trump’s EPA notified San Antonio — with good reason — that it needs to clean up its air by lowering ozone, or smog, levels, yet the EPA has also proposed numerous rollbacks making it easier for industries to pollute and...

San Antonio Organizer Greg Harman recently had a conversation about climate change (and the urgent need for local leadership in the face of federal failure) with Ursula Rakova, the executive director of an organization that is already hosting the...

Was it us, or was it just coincidence, that the PUC opened up an energy efficiency rulemaking right after we published a blog on improving our state’s energy efficiency goals? :)

The Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter welcomes our newest interns, Michaela Urban and Alexis Fischer!