Public Citizen Texas

06/22/2026

Texas water is for Texans. Get your own!

06/17/2026

Next Tuesday, June 23, will be the first legislative hearing addressing data center usage. If you can't make it to the Capitol, you can contact your lawmakers now to tell them our water supply belongs to Texans, not to Big Tech looking to make a buck. Take action: https://bit.ly/4aTFYkU

06/17/2026

“People feel like they’re not being heard. They feel like they’re being actively silenced. These are just administrative exercises. They're boxes to be checked in order to satisfy federal permitting requirements. And from that perspective, the entire process is a sham, and it’s meaningless.”

An attendee at a public hearing about a new Westover Hills data center makes her feelings known. Tempers flared during a late May public hearing about

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott finally woke up and called for data center regulations. But the governor wants to wait until the Legislature comes back in January. "Better late than never" isn't going to cut it.

06/10/2026

We support BESS because [insert reason here], and we’re proud to work with a bipartisan coalition educating and empowering Texas about their benefits. Read up on the facts and join our movement at yes2besstx.com

06/09/2026

We applaud TCEQ’s new resolve to address its enforcement backlog, but the only real progress we’ll count is the resolution of these enforcement cases that results in a penalty for the polluter and a signed agreed order requiring compliance by a date certain. More: https://bit.ly/4xwra5I

06/05/2026

The president thinks coal is great, yet another way he's living in the past. Trump's EPA wants to weaken safeguards on coal ash put in place after years of advocacy and legal action to hold coal polluters accountable. Tell the EPA: NO! https://bit.ly/4dTlueh

06/04/2026

Prove it, Mr. President. Show us how clean and beautiful it is.

06/02/2026

"That's almost unconscionable."

Kathryn Guerra, the director of Public Citizen's TCEQ Watchdog Campaign, recently spoke to PBS about data centers and what they mean for a community like Abilene, site of a massive facility developed by Big Tech giants OpenAI and Oracle.

Watch the full piece: https://bit.ly/4o3lprR