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As the summer drudges on, keeping your lawn, garden, or flowerbed healthy can be an expensive task. Even xeriscaped yards may need some water during summer dry spells. One of the ways to cut down on costs (and capitalize on a free resource!) is to...

This week, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) announced its ozone designation recommendations for the updated 2015 ozone (smog) standard. These proposed designations indicate where in Texas the air quality violates the new...

A new environmental challenge heating up over the last decade is the rapid decline of honeybees. Colony Collapse Disorder - or CCD - is being reported worldwide. The key suspect is a new group of pesticides – nicotine-like substances called “...

For the people of Maverick County, the cultural and environmental degradation taking place along the Rio Grande due to the Dos Republicas coal mine near Eagle Pass is part of their daily life. For others outside of those communities, Eagle Pass may...

These quotes represent a small sliver of the articles, exposes, and critiques written about the Texas Railroad Commision throughout time and space. They reflect a common theme where commissioners take millions of industry dollars and yet claim that...

Annova LNG makes it official, ozone pollution update, putting the pressure on the Railroad Commission, and much more

With the 2016 ozone season half over, the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) areas have by far the most high ozone days in the state compared to urban areas with just a few exceedance days: San Antonio, El Paso, Beaumont-Port Arthur, and East Texas...

Join the intrepid volunteers of the Lone Star Chapter for our third annual habitat restoration service trip to Big Bend National Park. The service trip will begin on Monday morning, October 17, and end on Friday afternoon, October 21. Since Monday...

For years, members of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter have advocated for protection of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s composed of banks of underwater “flowers” -- coral reefs -- and coral “cap...

Today, Annova LNG, one of three companies proposing to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in the Rio Grande Valley, filed its formal application to operate a 650-acre facility with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In...