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The big picture of renewable energy in Texas generally looks pretty optimistic. In Texas’s main electric grid known as ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which covers about 80 percent of the state, renewable energy and storage continue...

In 2019, despite many concerns expressed by the Sierra Club and others, HB 2771 was signed into law, which requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to ask the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to run a...

We tried to warn the Texas legislature about the dangers of storing low-level nuclear waste in West Texas years ago. Predictably, the majority of them shrugged us off- and now there is a much more serious predicament unfolding. We told them it was...

The Texas Commission On Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will be holding a series of virtual public meetings in October to get input from the public about ways to improve their public notice process in order to comply with Title VI of the 1964 Civil...

Sierra Club filed a new report with legal comments advocating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognize that Southwestern Electric Power Company’s (SWEPCO) Pirkey Coal Plant near Longview is worsening the region’s existing Sulfur...

Last week, Hurricane Laura made landfall at the Texas-Louisiana border, an area that is consistently battered with the dual dangers of natural disasters and chronic pollution from the petrochemical industry. Almost exactly this time last year, the...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, a bevy of lawyers, citizens and organizations joined a virtual meeting with State Office of Administrative Hearing (SOAH) Judge Christian Siano proceed over a Preliminary Hearing to determine which “parties”...

The Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club joined forces with Green Latinos, Environmental Defense Fund, Environment Texas, and Texas State Representative Erin Zwiener (D-HD45) earlier this week in hosting a virtual townhall on oil and gas air...

Following significant community pressure, the Texas Municipal Power Agency (TMPA)—comprised of Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville—has submitted a letter to the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) announcing that the current Interconnection...

The Environmental Integrity Project and Lone Star Legal Aid filed a lawsuit in federal court against a wood pellet manufacturing plant about 90 miles northeast of Houston for violating the Clean Air Act and emitting hundreds of tons of illegal VOC...