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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally adopted new Clean Air Act standards for chemical plants to lower toxic air pollution in fenceline communities by 6,200 tons. No state has more major chemical plants impacted by the rule than...

Instead of meeting to pass bills in this interim year between legislative sessions, the Texas House and Senate meet to discuss issues they think are important before they meet again in 2025. These are often called “interim charges” and hearings on...

Last Thursday night, like many of you, we saw the climate disaster in Houston unfolding on social media. We wouldn’t realize the extent of the damage until our trip to Houston was already underway Friday morning. Here's what we saw and how you can...

From devastating droughts to burgeoning demands – especially with an industrializing coast – to the major flooding events in the Houston area, Texans are rightly concerned about the management, availability, and in some cases the need for protection...

Last week, the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club joined a parade of invited high-priced lobby types as the Texas House of Representatives held a special hearing in Port Arthur on the Biden Administration’s pause on providing licenses to LNG (...

Utilities have extraordinary political power in Texas. They single-handedly killed the bill that would increase energy efficiency goals for the state for the last several legislative sessions. Gov. Abbott appoints the commissioners that oversee...

Are Texas utilities going to do a lot more to fix our grid with the most affordable, consumer-friendly solutions? Not really, though we have a bit of hope as the Public Utility Commission of Texas finally began asking stakeholders, the utilities and...

One of the areas that shows both the promise and the peril of the IRA, and how quickly it has been politicized, is the issue of oil and gas leasing and leasing for offshore wind in the Western Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas and Louisiana.

Interim charges indicate some of the key issues that Senate leadership thinks are important, and many of the charges are likely to lead to proposed legislation in 2025.

What ever happened to all those bills that passed the Texas House and Senate, became law, and were supposed to “fix the grid”? Have the changes that we expected to see happen, happened?