From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - Kelcy Warren is a pipeline billionaire, Energy Transfer Partners CEO, and man behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, Comanche Trail Pipeline (El Paso), and Trans-Pecos Pipeline (Big Bend). After donating $700k to Governor Greg Abbott's campaign, Warren...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - Join us on Monday March 6th for our next general meeting! We'll have time for announcements, working group sessions, and report backs on: - establishing more secure channels for communication - organizing in support of the Texas Water...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) and the Texas Water Protectors - Taking a lunch break on Monday? Do you have an account with Chase? Next Monday: stand with #NoDAPL --and if you can, close that account. Break up with the Bank -- or come pack...
Construction on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline has resumed. That's despite the work of thousands of protesters who gathered throughout the country decrying the potential negative effects of the pipeline on the environment, as well as on Native American land and water. The protests had...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - The Climate Justice Working Group is one of three working groups within ATXEJ. We're focused on eradicating the reliance on fossil fuels in Texas (especially shutting down coal and gas plants) while centering the communities impacted...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - The environmental justice movement in Texas is vibrant and growing. From supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline fight and Native-led resistance to coal mining on sacred burial sites along the Texas-Mexico border, to arts-led outreach in urban...
The Standing Rock protests have come to Texas. What is the Standing Rock protest all about? For those that have not been following along, for the past few months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota (along with environmentalists from around the country) have been waging...
From the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Team (ATXEJ) - Join us on the 3rd at Pan Am Park on E. 4th street for our next general meeting! We'll be on the stage area. Bring a chair, pillow, or blanket to sit on, and if you're hungry,...
From the Sierra Club's Austin Environmental Justice Team - Feel free to bring a dish or drink to share (no alcohol please). Thx to the organizing working group for pulling together this agenda: Facilitated by Victoria Jara & Ben Hirsch Ground rules and conversation contract (5 mins) Introductions (10 mins) Discussion...
The controversial Dos Republicas coal mine has been given permission to expand. At a hearing in Austin on Wednesday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to renew and expand a wastewater permit that will allow the mine to grow its operations in Texas near the...