Action for a greener, healthier Texas

With EPA protections lifted, pollution’s up and air quality’s down in Texas

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opened the door to more industrial pollution, and now, Texans can feel it in the air. 

Renewables on the Rise

Clean energy is sweeping across America and is poised for more dramatic growth in the coming years.

Plastic 'nurdles' are filling our oceans — but this bill would hold plastics companies accountable

They're tiny pellets used to make most plastic products, and about 9,200 truck loads of them end up in our oceans each year. 

Report details bacteria pollution at 55 Texas beaches

If it's safe to go to the beach, it should be safe to swim. Too often, though, it’s not.

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News Release | Environment America

Statement: The Trump administration is undermining wildly bipartisan conservation law

"This decision by the Trump administration is a big poke in the eye to the bipartisan coalition that worked together to pass the Great American Outdoors Act." 

Blog Post

Hays County votes to fund conservation of parks and recreational areas

Protecting 30 percent of our land and water by 2030 will take a multitude of smaller victories, precisely like this one.

News Release | Environment Texas Research and Policy Center

Legislators, advocates decry do-nothing flaring proposal

Saying proposed changes to state flaring regulations will do little to curb pollution, a group of legislators and advocates called on the state’s oil and gas regulator to go back to the drawing board and develop a plan to end routine flaring. Even as the Commissioners took up  the modest proposal at this morning’s Railroad Commission open meeting, Commissioners were expected to approve another 59 “exceptions” on their consent agenda allowing oil and gas operators to be able to flare and vent.

 

News Release | Environment Texas

Statement: Castañeda Loses Railroad Commission Race

Democratic candidate Chrysta Castañeda lost her race for a seat on the Railroad Commission of Texas last night. 

News Release | Environment Texas

Environmental Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Air Pollution from Industrial Flares

A coalition of ten environmental organizations today sued the Trump Administration’s EPA over its failure reduce toxic air pollution from industrial flares at petrochemical plants, gas processing facilities, municipal solid waste landfills, and other large industrial sites.

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Coronavirus update

Our work to defend the environment can’t stop and won’t stop in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll keep advocating on your behalf — at a safe social distance — for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate.