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News Highlights

  • What Sunrise El Paso Learned From Its Historic Youth-Led Climate Charter Campaign

    NEXT CITY - El Paso’s youth launched a historic fight for the country’s first municipal climate charter. After a failed ballot initiative, the group is launching a new effort to bring climate action to Sun City.

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  • Texas youth organizers take aim at the biggest oil field in the US

    THE GUARDIAN - Proposed El Paso climate charter seeks to prohibit use of city water for extraction projects including those in Permian Basin

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  • The Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want This Climate Charter to Succeed

    THE NATION - El Paso is holding a special election on Saturday for one of the most important pieces of climate policy you’ve likely never heard of.

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  • Environmental groups say Permian gas, oil drive climate change, urge denial of permits

    EL PASO TIMES - The economic recession that began in March 2020 due to the pandemic put a dent in oil and gas production, but the Permian Basin in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico is emerging from the slump.

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  • El Paso climate charter one step closer to getting on November ballot

    EL PASO TIMES - Sunrise El Paso and Ground Game Texas delivered over 39,000 petition signatures to the El Paso City Clerk after a six-month campaign. Once the City Clerk validates the signatures, a question will be added to the Nov. 8 ballot on a charter amendment to adopt a citywide climate policy.

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  • On the fence about solar? New cooperative launches to help El Pasoans make the transition

    EL PASO TIMES - El Paso residents can now join a cooperative to benefit from reduced costs to install solar panels on their homes or business.

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Analysis

  • Climate Resolution Voted Down in El Paso After Fossil Fuel Interests and Other Opponents Pour More Than $1 Million into Opposition

    INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS -

    Sunrise El Paso’s grassroots campaign was not enough to overcome the influence of a monopoly utility and fossil fuel companies at the ballot box.

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  • New El Paso Gas Plant: JP Morgan locking in climate destruction for the next 20 years

    EARTHWORKS - El Paso Electric Co. (EPE)–a private equity firm owned by JP Morgan Chase Bank–is profiting off the Permian Basin’s unprecedented level of fracking. By adding a new gas plant, they are locking in El Paso’s climate destruction for the next 20 years–but not if we stop it first.

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  • El Paso industrial sites driving regional air pollution.

    EL PASO TIMES - The two industrial sites in El Paso that emit the most particulate matter and ozone precursors, driving regional air pollution, are El Paso Electric's Newman Station and the Marathon Refinery.

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  • What you need to know about the fight over the Newman 6 power plant

    EL PASO MATTERS -

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  • 'Like a dumping ground': Latina moms in Texas border city are fighting air pollution

    NBC - El Paso is among the worst places for ozone pollution. Hispanic residents who successfully sued for more regulation want to know why the state is fighting them.

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  • Eco-Fascism, Uncovered

    SIERRA - El Paso, Texas, witnessed the first violent outburst of US eco-fascism—and is also a living rebuttal to the hateful ideology

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