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How do the Pedernales Electric Cooperative and Austin Energy plan on saving customers money with this same technology so that everyone has the opportunity to contribute to a clean energy future? The answer is community solar, which keeps solar local...

I love to be the bearer of good news: Texans are making tremendous progress on conserving water. In fact, in the municipal sector (composed of residential, institutional, industrial, and commercial water use) cities across Texas are using 21 percent...

Lone Star Sierran: November 2017

Disaster recovery is usually a fairly top-down process. Over the last ten weeks, West Street Recovery has tried to help families in Houston recover from Hurricane Harvey with an alternative community-based approach, asking residents to identify...

This summer, Rio Grande LNG signed an agreement with the Port of Cork, Ireland to build an import facility to receive RGV gas. In response, Irish environmental activists recently published a sign-on letter opposing Rio Grande LNG in the Brownsville...

Luminant Energy (a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, which also owns retail giant TXU) will retire three large coal plants—Big Brown, Monticello and Sandow—in early 2018, eliminating more than 4,400 MW of power from the grid, as well as millions of tons...