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Just 16 months after Denton City Council adopted a power plan that directed the city’s utility to achieve at least 70% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2019, a new proposal from an independent consulting firm says that getting Denton to...

Sometimes the work of the Texas Living Waters Project (TLWP) gets a little confrontational. While admittedly not as scintillating as scripted court hearings on cable TV featuring professional actors and colorful plot lines, the TLWP uses the state’s...

Vistra Energy, the new owners of Luminant Energy, Texas’s largest electric generation company, announced recently that they intend to retire three large coal-fired power plants, including seven separate boiler units, in early 2018. How did we get...

Last month, Cameron County ignored their Port Isabel and South Padre Island constituents and granted a 10-year tax break to the company seeking to build NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project. Days later, the Texas LNG project lost public support from...

At this year’s GridNEXT conference, hosted by the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance (TREIA), leaders from across the clean energy industry proudly announced that renewables have arrived and are here to stay in the Lone Star State.

Lone Star Sierran: October 2017

During one of the most divisive and discriminatory legislatures in years, good environmental or public health legislation did not have much of a chance. However, there were many important bills and amendments voted on that affect our environment....

Riding the tide of successful city council resolutions acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Day and opposing the border wall on October 5, a group of representatives from Eagle Pass, Public Citizen, and the Sierra Club made their way to the Travis...

October 5 was a big day in Austin that could have reverberations in communities across Texas. In case you missed it, here’s a bit of hope to keep you speaking out, organizing, and moving forward with your community for a better tomorrow.

Wow. On the heels of last Friday's announcement that Luminant Energy will retire its Monticello coal plant, today they announced two more big polluting units - Big Brown and Sandow. Read our reaction and from partners.