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The Texas State Capitol building with American and Texan flags, with text overlaid: Wrap-up Review for the 89th Texas Legislative Session

Wrap-up Review for the 89th Texas Legislative Session

June 11, 2025 | By Becky Smith
The Texas Legislature wrapped up its 89th session on June 2nd. From environmental protections to classroom behavior to landowner rights, oil field blowouts, and so much more, few areas of Texans’ lives and livelihoods went untouched. Clean Water Action and our environmental allies view the 89th session as, on balance, positive. Read on for a breakdown of the bills that have (or would have had) the biggest impact on our water and our environment.
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Still Fracking with Diesel After All These Years

August 13, 2014 | By Clean Water Action
By John Noël, National Oil and Gas Program Coordinator - follow John on Twitter Today our allies at the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) released a groundbreaking report on the oil and gas industry’s use of diesel fuels in fracture fluids. As we’ve written before, the Energy Policy Act of 2005
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Abbott's Saber Rattling Prattle Against Protecting Our Water

August 12, 2014 | By David Foster

Sadly, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's August 11th letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) threatening to sue if it does not retreat from its plan to strengthen protections for the sources of our drinking water is more about politics and ideology than public health. For Abbott, it does not matter that EPA simply wants to return protections back to where they were during the Clinton and Reagan administrations.

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ReThinking Disposables

August 11, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Madison Davis, California Waste Program Intern Since starting my summer internship at Clean Water Action in Oakland, I’ve discovered how little I really knew about how disposable containers’ impact our environment. Of course as a life long environmentalist, I’ve always tried to do what I could

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Looking for Sustainability Abroad

August 6, 2014 | By Clean Water Action
By Lily Biggar, Communications Intern After an incredible summer spent interning at Clean Water Action’s DC office, it is finally time for me to move on to my next adventure! This Friday, I will be boarding a plane to Copenhagen, Denmark, where I will be spending the next four months studying
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