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Georgetown, Texas is a small city outside of Austin with big ambition: five years ago, it committed to powering itself with 100% renewable energy. Of course, no story is actually that simple. But Georgetown didn’t go wrong by switching to renewable...

Earlier this week, the Chair of the City of Austin’s “Electric Utility Commission Generation Resource Planning Working Group” released a draft update of the Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan through 2030 for discussion.

Local residents, the city of Port Isabel, and Sierra Club today filed suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorizing construction of the highly polluting Rio Grande LNG fracked gas facility and Rio Bravo Pipeline...

Brownsville Organizer Bekah Hinojosa traveled across Europe in December to confront the banks and decision-makers behind these fracked gas projects alongside our partners who are also working to stop the global buildout of oil and gas. We must take...

This is it. It’s 2020. It’s time to give it all you’ve got to elect people who will act in our best interests - from Washington to Austin. The Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter is seeking a volunteer who can commit 5-10 hours per week (or more) to...

When you track more than 2,500 individual votes, sometimes you don't catch every special circumstance. That's why we said in our 2019 Texas Legislative Scorecard we are open to adjusting the scores of Texas lawmakers after we published it. Well, the...

For Sierra Club, every year is an election year. In our most recent statewide leadership elections, Juan Mancias, Brandon Morton, and Andrew Balinsky were elected to the Executive Committee that governs the Lone Star Chapter.

Yesterday, Sierra Club joined an uncontested comprehensive agreement in a proceeding before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, which will determine whether Xcel Energy can change electricity rates.

After some delays caused by federal rules from Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - the Texas General Land Office (GLO) finally released last month their draft “CDBG Mitigation Action Plan” on how to spend about $4.3 billion in federal Harvey and...

TCEQ proposed a rule that would incorporate federal standards on oil and gas wastewater discharge for produced wastewater, including both direct discharges and discharges from centralized wastewater treatment plants.