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Keystone XL approval is wrong direction

By facilitating the transportation of dirty tar sands fuels, Keystone would add 27.4 million metric tons of global warming pollution to our atmosphere per year. President Trump's executive order advancing the Keystone XL pipeline is definitely a step in the wrong direction. READ MORE.

News Release | Environment Texas Research & Policy Center

Whole Foods gets an "F" on sustainable meat report card

This year’s massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is being driven by major food companies who have no environmental standards for meat, a new report released today by Environment Texas and Mighty Earth finds. Failing companies include Whole Foods, which sources meat from some of the most polluting agribusinesses in the country, including Tyson Foods and Cargill.

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News Release | Environment Texas

Petrobras settles air pollution suit against Pasadena refinery

HOUSTON – Environment Texas and Sierra Club announced today that they have filed a proposed consent decree in federal court to settle their citizen enforcement lawsuit against Pasadena Refining System, Inc. PRSI is owned by Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.), the state-controlled oil company of Brazil.

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Looking for good news? Check out this map on renewable energy. | Rob Sargent

There are many reasons to be optimistic about a future powered by the sun and wind.

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