Action for a greener, healthier Texas

Hays County approves $75 million parks investment

Most Texans would agree that more nature in our lives would be a good thing. 

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. 

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Blog Post

It’s time to shut down San Antonio's Spruce Coal Plant

A coalition of groups in San Antonio is collecting petitions to amend the city charter to force CPS Energy to shut down the plant by 2030. 

News Release | Environment Texas

Statement: BOEM to auction all remaining areas in Gulf of Mexico

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to offer up all remaining areas in the Gulf of Mexico for auction to oil and gas companies tomorrow, offering leases for approximately 78 million acres in Federal waters -- more than five times the amount of oil and gas lease acreage that the agency currently ma

News Release | Environment America

Statement: Trump administration’s rush to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling could be catastrophic

“America is transitioning to a new administration that has already pledged to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We are rapidly transitioning to renewable energy and clean transportation options. And yet this administration is attempting to ram through a backward looking proposal. We urge all oil companies to read the tea leaves and take a pass.” 

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.

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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.