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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Report | Environment Texas Research and Policy Center

Blueprint for America

Americans agree: Our nation's infrastructure needs work. Republicans, Democrats and independents alike all support boosting federal investment in infrastructure.1 A transpartisan effort to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure can help to bring Americans together at a time of increasing polarization and help heal the economic wounds caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Throwing money at the problem, however, is not the solution. Nor is rebuilding the same old infrastructure in the same old ways.

News Release | Environment Texas Research and Policy Center

New report: A blueprint for stronger, more sustainable American infrastructure

On Jan. 20, 2021, the United States will have a new president, helping to turn the page on a brutal year of disease and disruption. While stark political divisions will undoubtedly remain, a new report from TexPIRG Education Fund, Environment Texas Research & Policy Center, and Frontier Group lays out a vision to bridge political divides through infrastructure investment, seizing a critical opportunity to emerge as a stronger nation after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

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How to be more energy efficient based on your Zodiac sign

Energy saving tips that are written in the stars

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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

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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.