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Re-energized El Paso climate-action group rises from the ashes of election defeat

Sunrise El Paso, a student effort, was reborn as the all-ages Amanecer People’s Project after its ballot initiative failed in 2023. It carries on the fight with a campaign for school air-conditioning and other efforts.

Andrew Orgill: Saving sea turtles and other wildlife on the central Texas coast

Orgill has noticed that sea turtle-endangering “cold-stun events” have become more common and severe – and federal data agree. Rising ocean temperatures play a part, luring turtles to areas where they previously did not go.

Space is getting crowded with junk. Greenhouse gases worsen the problem.

Excess carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel use is shrinking the upper atmosphere. New research found that if emissions don’t fall, only about half of its current capacity for satellites could operate safely by this century’s end.

Rollbacks gut environmental justice gains, former EPA official says

“The worst outcome I feared is happening,” says Matthew Tejada, former director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, about Trump administration changes at the agency. He previously led the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston.

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