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With the 2016 ozone season half over, the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) areas have by far the most high ozone days in the state compared to urban areas with just a few exceedance days: San Antonio, El Paso, Beaumont-Port Arthur, and East Texas...

Join the intrepid volunteers of the Lone Star Chapter for our third annual habitat restoration service trip to Big Bend National Park. The service trip will begin on Monday morning, October 17, and end on Friday afternoon, October 21. Since Monday...

For years, members of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter have advocated for protection of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s composed of banks of underwater “flowers” -- coral reefs -- and coral “cap...

Today, Annova LNG, one of three companies proposing to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in the Rio Grande Valley, filed its formal application to operate a 650-acre facility with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In...

The latest electric demand and supply projections from the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) show that sunshine is in Texas’s future -- specifically solar photovoltaic power. According to the latest draft Long-Term System Assessment (...

Stop a coal mine, protect bays and estuaries, and make Castner Range the Next national monument!

Somewhere off the east side of the Franklin Mountain Range adjacent to Northeast El Paso lays a field colored with Mexican poppies and native grasses. This land, left nearly untouched by humanity for the past half century, is known as Castner Range...

On Thursday, on a 9-0 city council vote (with two abstaining), Austin became the latest city in Texas to adopt the most up to date building energy codes (the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code, or IECC) for new commercial and residential...

Back in March, the Obama Administration announced the sale of 13 new offshore drilling leases between 2017-2022. Ten of them would be located in the Gulf. This announcement ignited significant opposition in coastal communities, which was reinforced...

As the clock approached midnight, Denton City Council finally voted on the Denton Renewable Plan, which would increase its renewable energy use to 70% but also include a whopping 12 new natural gas power plants. Despite opposition from dozens of...