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Civic Engagement
The Texas Legislature is Set to Vote on Changes to the PUCT, ERCOT, and OPUC
On Tuesday, January 10th, the Texas Legislature began its 88th legislative session, gathering to pass a variety of laws and a two-year state budget. From January until May, legislators will gather at the Capitol to vote on, amend, and "kill" legislation regarding...
Christian Nationalism
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, in an Oct. 26 seminar at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., reiterated The Episcopal Church’s position that white Christian nationalism is a gross perversion of Christianity, and that Christians must...
Fossils
While representatives of national governments are parsing diplomatic language in meeting rooms at the climate negotiations, outside the rooms advocates from “civil society” use every strategy they can think of to advance their issues and get negotiators’ attention....
Climate Justice
TCEQ Releases Climate Emissions Inventory, Mitigation Plan
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality recently released its Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Priority Action Plan for the State of Texas (PAP). The plan was developed as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Pollution Reduction Grants...
Challenges and Successes in Texas Energy and Climate News
When it comes to energy and climate news from West Texas, it is the best of times and the worst of times. Let’s start with the worst. On Tuesday afternoon, wildfires in the northern Texas Panhandle spread out of control, growing from 100,000 acres earlier in the day...
Weather and Climate Disasters Threaten Church Property Insurance
Austin-based news station KXAN reported this week that dozens of United Methodist churches in Texas have found themselves struggling to find property insurance this year. Without property insurance, churches, many of whom have large and sprawling facilities, are...
Economic Justice
44: How Did We Get Here? Unpacking the Origins of the Vaccines Controversy
This week we welcome Terri Burke, Executive Director of the Immunization Partnership, to talk about the importance of vaccinations–one of the 10 major advances in public health of the 20th century–and the history behind the vaccine opposition movement, which is...
Tell Your Reproductive Rights Story.
Every person has a story. Your story is what you tell someone about an experience you had. It might be short or long; it might be about an experience that made you happy...or it might be about an experience that made you angry, afraid, or even physically hurt. The...
If She Had Not Been Pregnant, Would She Have Died?
This week, as millions of Texans prepare to celebrate the birth of a healthy baby to an unwed teen mother of color, the Texas Department of State Health Services finally released their 2022 biennial report from the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review...
Human Rights
Ep. 349 Vidas Robadas/Stolen Lives
This week marks the beginning of Gun Violence Awareness Month and many of us will still remember where we were when we received the news about the tragic school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde just two years ago. Joining us this week is Texas Impact's Policy...
May in Texas – A Time for Remembrance and Action
In Texas, May is a special time for gun violence survivors. Within its markers are the anniversaries of two major school shootings – the Santa Fe High School shooting on May 18th and the Uvalde Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24th. It is a hard time for many,...
“At Least Our Voices Were Heard:” Interim Hearings Are Underway
This week, interim hearings started in the Texas Senate. On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Higher Education met to hear testimony on three interim charges: “Monitor the Ban on Discriminatory DEI Policies;” “Combating Antisemitism on Texas College Campuses;” and “Campus...