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This summer, Rio Grande LNG signed an agreement with the Port of Cork, Ireland to build an import facility to receive RGV gas. In response, Irish environmental activists recently published a sign-on letter opposing Rio Grande LNG in the Brownsville...

Luminant Energy (a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, which also owns retail giant TXU) will retire three large coal plants—Big Brown, Monticello and Sandow—in early 2018, eliminating more than 4,400 MW of power from the grid, as well as millions of tons...

Just 16 months after Denton City Council adopted a power plan that directed the city’s utility to achieve at least 70% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2019, a new proposal from an independent consulting firm says that getting Denton to...

Sometimes the work of the Texas Living Waters Project (TLWP) gets a little confrontational. While admittedly not as scintillating as scripted court hearings on cable TV featuring professional actors and colorful plot lines, the TLWP uses the state’s...

Vistra Energy, the new owners of Luminant Energy, Texas’s largest electric generation company, announced recently that they intend to retire three large coal-fired power plants, including seven separate boiler units, in early 2018. How did we get...

Last month, Cameron County ignored their Port Isabel and South Padre Island constituents and granted a 10-year tax break to the company seeking to build NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project. Days later, the Texas LNG project lost public support from...

At this year’s GridNEXT conference, hosted by the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance (TREIA), leaders from across the clean energy industry proudly announced that renewables have arrived and are here to stay in the Lone Star State.

Lone Star Sierran: October 2017

During one of the most divisive and discriminatory legislatures in years, good environmental or public health legislation did not have much of a chance. However, there were many important bills and amendments voted on that affect our environment....

Riding the tide of successful city council resolutions acknowledging Indigenous Peoples’ Day and opposing the border wall on October 5, a group of representatives from Eagle Pass, Public Citizen, and the Sierra Club made their way to the Travis...