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The Brownsville Climate March: on the front lines of organizing, climate change, and environmental justice.

The Sierra Club has partnered with the Center for Biological Diversity to protest the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to auction off thousands of acres in Texas for oil and gas drilling and development. Your help is needed!

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Sierra Club, through its Borderlands Project, has opposed erecting even limited stretches of physical barriers between the U.S. and Mexico. Each predicted negative impact of the wall has come to pass: unfair and discriminatory confiscation...

The trickle of water bills introduced in this session of the Texas Legislature has now become a steady stream of legislation. Some of those bills, however, actually seek to stem the flow of water – or, to be precise, prevent water from being wasted...

Welcome our newest Lone Star Chapter intern, Orlando Hernandez!

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller recently announced a new weapon in the arsenal to reduce the feral hog population: a poison called Kaput Feral Hog Bait. While the former State Representative is treating Kaput like the holy grail of feral...

A report from Two Rivers Camp in West Texas. 

In mid-February, about 200 residents from across the Rio Grande Valley gathered to march from Washington Park down the streets of Historic Brownsville to raise concerns of climate change impacts, indigenous resistance to fossil fuels, environmental...

It doesn’t make sense if you step back and look at it. Parks and wildlife areas are preserved areas, protected from commercial and industrial development. It’s a park after all, right? Well, sure, unless there is recoverable oil and gas below it. If...