Sierra Club Archives - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

2Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

3Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

4Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

5The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

6Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: Sierra Club

Native Texans march against the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership in Eagle Pass.

by Naveena Sadasivam

Going Beyond Green for a Racially Diverse Environmental Movement

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 |

The Austin Environmental Justice group is working to bring diversity to an environmental movement sometimes suffering from "savior syndrome."...Read More

Earth Day Texas

by Naveena Sadasivam

Mainstream Groups Heat Up Over ‘Racist’ Anti-Immigrant Orgs at Earth Day Texas

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Tue, Apr 26, 2016 |

Groups with ties to white nationalists prompted the Sierra Club's boycott of Earth Day Texas, which was bankrolled by real estate mogul Trammell Crow....Read More

lon burnam

by Naveena Sadasivam

Lon Burnam Missed the Railroad Runoff. What Happened?

The former Fort Worth Democrat had major newspaper endorsements, environmental groups’ support and outspent his opponents, only to lose by double-digits.

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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 |

The former Fort Worth Democrat had major newspaper endorsements and environmental groups’ support and outspent his opponents, only to lose by double-digits....Read More

Solar panel installation atop a Walmart store in Mountain View, California. Texas environmentalists hope to convince Target to take similar steps toward solar power in the Lone Star State.

by Naveena Sadasivam

Report: Texas Superstores Should Go Big on Solar

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Tue, Feb 16, 2016 |

Texas is second only to California in its potential for rooftop solar at superstores, and if that potential is tapped, Environment America estimated that it cou...Read More

Texas Drought

by Forrest Wilder

State Water Bank Proposal Passes Easily

Tue, Nov 5, 2013 |

Texas voters continued their streak, since 1985, of approving big-ticket water funding at the polls. Prop 6, despite 11th hour opposition from some tea party gr...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

SXSW Eco: Who Owns Environmentalism?

Thu, Oct 10, 2013 |

Now in its third year, South by Southwest Eco is part Aspen Ideas Festival, part grassroots movement-building and part corporate branding opportunity—all unde...Read More

Waste-Control-site

by Forrest Wilder

Lawmaker Wants to Limit Challenges to Harold Simmons’ Radioactive Waste Dump

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Mon, Feb 25, 2013 |

Citizen challenges to a West Texas radioactive waste dump owned by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons would be limited under legislation filed by Rep. Drew Darby...Read More

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