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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...

Company will upgrade plant equipment, fund $3 million electric vehicles project

Bryan Texas Utilities, which serves the City of Bryan, Texas, might soon make a decision on their old, dirty coal plant, Gibbons Creek. It is in somewhat of a unique position, being a public utility, to do much more on solar and other clean energy...

French bank Société Générale is the financial advisor of a dangerous liquified natural gas project proposed for South Texas. As an organization with the majority of our members, supporters, and volunteers living in the U.S., how can the Sierra Club...

Earlier this year, hundreds of local residents, as well as the Sierra Club, Texas Campaign for the Environment, and others, told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) that the air pollution permit for what could be the world’s largest...

Sierra Club recognizes EPA decision to designate Bexar County as in non-attainment with federal air quality standards, notes agency should have designated all eight counties in area as in non-attainment.

The themes of renewable energy, community organizing, development, equity and affordability are all interconnected, and we’ll be addressing their intersections at this Saturday’s screening of Sierra Club’s newest film “Reinventing Power: America’s...