Texas Coal Press Releases
Sierra Club has been campaigning hard challenging new coal plants and promoting clean energy solutions. Most recently, we’ve begun working on phasing out old coal plants.
Survey After Survey
show that Texas can meet our energy needs and build the green jobs economy with energy efficiency & renewable power.
The
Sierra Club Roll
Beyond Coal Bicycle Rides in Alpine,
Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, & Dallas, Texas
Saturday, October 31!
Sierra Club and our friends around
the state enjoyed fun, educational bicycle rides
to Roll Beyond Coal in Alpine, Ausitn, Beaumont, Corpus
Christi, and Dallas.
Our goals:
1. To raise awareness in Texas to move beyond coal,
to increase clean energy and green jobs, lower global
warming emissions, and clean up the air;
2. To recruit more Sierra Club activists for outdoor
fun and political action in Texas; and,
3. To have fun outdoors!
CORPUS CHRISTI
Sierra
Club photo by Donna Hoffman
Citizens in Corpus
Christi and surrounding counties turned out powerfully
for a preliminary hearing about the Las Brisas coke
(similar to coal) plant that Las Brisas Energy Center,
LLC is proposing in their community. See the
LAS
BRISAS PHOTO ESSAY.
NATIONAL
Sierra Club's
BEYOND COAL
webpage is chock full of fact sheets and other resources
including a COAL PLANT TRACKER
where you can look up specific information about
existing and proposed Texas coal plants.
"Many laws protecting environmental quality have
promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In
our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and
leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us." Ronald Regan, Message to Congress transmitting
Council on Environmental Quality's annual report,
October 3, 1988
