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For the people of Maverick County, the cultural and environmental degradation taking place along the Rio Grande due to the Dos Republicas coal mine near Eagle Pass is part of their daily life. For others outside of those communities, Eagle Pass may...

These quotes represent a small sliver of the articles, exposes, and critiques written about the Texas Railroad Commision throughout time and space. They reflect a common theme where commissioners take millions of industry dollars and yet claim that...

Annova LNG makes it official, ozone pollution update, putting the pressure on the Railroad Commission, and much more

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...