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Congrats to our Conservation Director Cyrus Reed for receiving the “Gregg Cooke Award for Excellence in Environmental Leadership" at the Texas Energy Summit this week!

Earlier this month, Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter and Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) were granted party status to contest the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) decision to allow an ExxonMobil/SABIC subsidiary to build...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department doesn’t usually make its views about the plans of federal agencies, like Customs and Border Protection, public knowledge. But in documents obtained by the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter through an open...

"As a business owner of Manuel's Restaurant and a Port Isabel resident for over 35 years, I am worried that my home, community, and livelihood are in danger if Rio Grande LNG builds its massive liquefied natural gas export terminal and flammable...

As Texans, we want our waters to be healthy. We want to know that it is safe for our friends and families to be boating, swimming and fishing on our waters.

“You see all these commercials, ‘Houston’s come back.’ Houston hasn’t come back. We still need somewhere to stay… I’m not asking for charity. I’m just asking for what I feel like is owed to me. I want to be comfortable and die in the place I was...

Our Conservation Director Cyrus Reed breaks down the details of the draft plan and lays out how you can provide your input through October!

Instead of requiring Texas’s aging fleet to come into compliance with modern, industry-standard emission controls, the Trump EPA’s proposal announced last week scraps a common-sense plan in favor of a sham plan that would allow Texas’s aging and...

Last week's border wall news: Sierra Club speaks out against border wall construction through precious ecological spaces at Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, and local Sierra Club volunteer releases a powerful short doc on the beauty of...

One year after Harvey brought unprecedented rainfall and flooding to Houston, residents, community leaders, and experts are gathering to tell their stories and dig into how climate impacts affect workers, immigrants, housing and the environment.