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Let the People Vote! TCE and Allies Deliver Thousands of No Desal Petitions

TCE and Save the Bay for the Greater Good deliver thousands of petitions asking Corpus Christi Mayor and City Council to hold a public vote on the November ballot to determine whether or not the City can build desalination projects.

Crisis is not free pass to pollute our planet

Houston Chronicle Op-Ed: The president and governor appear to take advantage of an economic and health emergency in order to allow more profits and pollution from industrial plants. Public health and the planet cannot take it.

Houston Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire

From our blog: Houston’s CEER and HOME coalitions issued a joint questionnaire to all Mayoral candidates and published all responses. Read what the candidates have to say about the environment, affordable housing, transparency and other key issues here.

Plastic bags are killing horses and cows across the state. What’s Texas to do?

Texas Tribune: A year after the Texas Supreme Court dealt a death blow to municipal bans on plastic bags, legislative efforts to revive them have fallen flat, and ranchers, city leaders and environmental groups say plastic bag litter is as big a problem as ever.

Recycling trashed: City audit confirms 1,300 tons of recyclables were sent to a landfill

KHOU News Houston: The 12-page report identified a total of 532 mishandled incidents across every sector of the city from January to June.

Commissioners Pass Resolution for Dallas County Environmental Protection

NBC News DFW: The resolution received unanimous support from all five Dallas County Commissioners. Republican J.J. Koch joined the four Democrats in voting for the measure.

Texas legislature passes two waste permitting laws

Waste Dive: Texas is known for being less restrictive than some states when it comes to solid waste permitting — especially for landfills — so the passage of these seemingly minor laws is notable.

Lawmakers passed Hurricane Harvey aid, but ignored its cause, environmental advocates say

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: As lawmakers talked this session about the damage and destruction their communities suffered when Hurricane Harvey struck in 2017, environmental advocates said two words were missing from the conversation: climate change.

Slow Gains for the Environment at the Capitol

Austin Chronicle: While the 86th was not a halcyon session for environmental progress – no surprise, alas, in Texas – there was indeed some limited improvement.

2019 Legislature Wraps up with Wins and Losses

From our blog: Texas Campaign for the Environment worked with neighbors of waste facilities or proposed waste facilities to get two good bills passed into law. We also helped defeat some legislation that would have made it more difficult to oppose pollution permits and pre-empt local governments when it came to waste facilities and tree ordinances, for instance.