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Earlier this year, after a significant delay, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally proposed a new annual standard for fine particle particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less.

Finally, all committees have been named and they are cooking. This week, the subcommittees of the House Committee on Appropriations began meeting, and Sierra Club was there to testify.

This week, the Sierra Club hit the Capitol running. From providing written and oral testimony to the Senate Committee on Finance on the state’s budget, to volunteers scouring the halls passing out factsheets on our legislative solutions, to...

We have hit the 30 day mark. The Legislature has met, has been filing bills (about 3,000 thus far), and has even started committee meetings.

In the midst of what was looking to be a long hearing in the Senate Committee on Finance, as they officially opened discussion on the state’s two-year $280 billion budget, new chair, Joan Huffman (R-Houston), suddenly announced that, in view of...

The EPA has released its long-overdue draft proposal to update the national air quality standard for soot, also known as particulate matter. While it demonstrates a step toward clean air for all, it falls far short of what communities deserve, but...

Well it’s been 17 days since the 140-day legislative session kicked off. And what can I say about the 88th Legislative Session?

Here we take a look at three of the most impactful pieces of environmental state legislation of the last 10 years to illustrate that good things come to those who fight together.

On Jan. 23, San Antonio's CPS Energy Board of Trustees approved a plan to retire the utility’s last remaining coal plant by 2028. This follows decades of outcry about Spruce.

On Wednesday, Sierra Club intervened in Xcel Energy’s recent rate case to support retiring the Texas-based Tolk coal plant ahead of schedule. The case will be overseen by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) and is the first step in...