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HB 7 provides certain concessions to developers to get credit for planting trees but does not prevent cities from regulating trees. While Sierra Club doesn’t support the legislation, we and our many members helped make sure that far worse proposals...

It was billed as an opportunity to address “Extreme Heat: Survival Strategies for a Hotter San Antonio.” Breaking down the climate crisis to what city residents can feel deeply without an often assumed depth of understanding about the science behind...

Our Water Resources Program Manager Jennifer Walker breaks down everything you need to know about the multi-faceted community response needed to protect our rivers and water supplies during Texas drought.

We loaded up an 12-seater van in Austin with Sierra Club staff and volunteers, as well as other environmental activists, to meet up with the Sierra Club Borderlands team, the Lower Rio Grande Sierra Club, and hundreds of protestors in the Rio Grande...

Lone Star Sierran: July 2017

While we hear more and more scary news out of Trump’s White House and Pruitt’s EPA everyday, you might not have heard some good news right here in the capital of Texas. Austin City Council is gearing up to vote on updating the city’s long-range...

The Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter is pleased to announce the latest addition to our all-star team, Larisa Manescu, our new Communications Coordinator.

In another stinging setback for ExxonMobil in a long-running environmental enforcement case, a federal district judge in Houston denied ExxonMobil’s motion to reduce the size of the $19.95 million penalty the judge had ordered in April to punish the...

Traveling Soles, a photojournalism project by artist Verónica Gabriela Cardenas, documents the difficult journey of migrants on their way to find safety.

Neeraj Mashru reflects on his experiences working at 'La 72,' a shelter set up on the southern Mexico border to offer Central American migrants a safe space to rest along their dangerous journeys north.