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Nearly 20 million Texans (70%) live in the four most polluted Texas urban areas facing new designations as nonattainment for ozone, which has significant health impacts. Last week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Sierra Club in our Clean Air Act "...

CPS' "Flexible Management Plan" is underwhelming and was developed in secret designed to preserve the status quo.

Each year, Texas Sierra Club takes some time to look back at the previous year and recognize this great work of inspiring environmental activists and innovators from around our state with awards to show our appreciation. Our award categories inspire...

Lone Star Sierran: February 2018

With the guidance of Sierra Club San Antonio Organizer Greg Harman, alongside countless environmental justice and social justice community leaders, the Climate Action SA coalition has been demanding that San Antonio leadership - including CPS Energy...

Earlier this month, the City of Denton voted to revise the city utility's energy plan to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2020, becoming the second city in Texas to make the commitment (Georgetown was the first). However, the work did not end with...

As the months pass and people around Texas and the nation hear news updates about the latest status of political squabbling in Washington, we wanted to center the perspective of our Rio Grande Valley volunteers, friends, co-workers, and activists...

In early January, Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke released a draft offshore drilling five-year plan that proposed an unprecedented expansion of offshore drilling into nearly all of America’s waters. The Bureau of Ocean Energy...

"Eighteen years ago, I began working at the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. I was fresh out of college with a degree in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology and I was (and still am) ready to work hard on behalf of the people and...

The purpose of Educate and Activate was to bring together community artists, activists, and community members to reflect on the weight of air pollution on the bodies and minds of those most affected and to celebrate the closing of three coal power...