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Our Conservation Director Cyrus Reed breaks down the details of the draft plan and lays out how you can provide your input through October!

Instead of requiring Texas’s aging fleet to come into compliance with modern, industry-standard emission controls, the Trump EPA’s proposal announced last week scraps a common-sense plan in favor of a sham plan that would allow Texas’s aging and...

Last week's border wall news: Sierra Club speaks out against border wall construction through precious ecological spaces at Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, and local Sierra Club volunteer releases a powerful short doc on the beauty of...

One year after Harvey brought unprecedented rainfall and flooding to Houston, residents, community leaders, and experts are gathering to tell their stories and dig into how climate impacts affect workers, immigrants, housing and the environment.

Huge victory: DC Court says EPA can no longer delay the Chemical Disaster rule! Texas is #1 in chemical plants subject to this ruling.

Back in 2007, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission took the important and necessary step to prohibit the commercial collection of all freshwater turtles in Texas EXCEPT for four species. Unfortunately, the red-eared slider, common snapping turtle...

A key challenge facing Texas, and other states that are, or at least were, home to alligator gar, is to strike a reasonable balance in water management that manages flooding risk to human infrastructure and meets human water needs, while maintaining...

The U.S. Forest Service (FS) has halted all work on the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas Forest Plan revision. The revision process, which takes three to four years, will “pause” for an unknown time period. It is thought that the “halt”...

There are more miles of pipeline in Texas than miles of road, transporting oil and gas across our state and threatening communities and waterways along the way. Although it is still unfinished, Enbridge’s new “Valley Crossing Pipeline” already has a...

Last weekend, 100 guests came out to see a screening of the new Sierra Club film “Reinventing Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom” in Austin, Texas, followed by a panel that explored ways in which community advocates, residents, and policy...