Environment Texas

04/29/2026

04/22/2026

This Earth Day, your gift can have twice the impact for wild forests like the Sam Houston National Forest. Donate before midnight to get your gift matched, up to $50,000 nationwide.

Make an Earth Day donation before midnight on April 22 and your gift will be matched, up to $50,000 nationwide.

04/18/2026

Tell the Forest Service to keep our national forests wild. Adding your name will help save our wild forests like the Sam Houston National Forest.

You can help save towering trees. Be a guardian for our national forests: Add your name now.

04/18/2026

“On April 14, nearly 100 doctors and health professionals sent a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asking him to take steps to protect public health from the threat of microplastics.”

Concerns over microplastics are growing as researchers are finding them almost everywhere.

04/10/2026

Join leading medical experts, including cardiologists and public health researchers, for a timely conversation on the emerging science around microplastics and the human body. We’ll explore what researchers are beginning to uncover about links to heart disease, inflammation, and other potential health risks–and what it means that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now prioritizing microplastics as a contaminant of concern.

Register for the webinar on Tuesday, April 14 at 10:30AM at the link in our bio.

04/10/2026

Tiny plastic particles are turning up everywhere—from our water and air to our bloodstreams and organs— but what does that mean for Texans’ health?

Join leading medical experts, including cardiologists and public health researchers, for a timely conversation on the emerging science around microplastics and the human body to find out!

Environment Texas is proud to host a panel of experts for a webinar titled ‘Microplastics in our bodies: What health experts are starting to see’, on Tuesday, April 14, 10:30 AM CT.

This webinar will break down what we know, what we don’t, and what steps policymakers and the public can take now to reduce exposure and protect our health.

We’ll also explore what researchers are beginning to uncover about links to heart disease, inflammation, and other potential health risks—and what it means that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now prioritizing microplastics as a contaminant of concern.

We're excited to see you there!

This webinar will break down what we know, what we don’t, and what steps policymakers and the public can take now to reduce exposure and protect our health.

We’ll also explore what researchers are beginning to uncover about links to heart disease, inflammation, and other potential health risks—and what it means that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now prioritizing microplastics as a contaminant of concern.

We're excited to see you there!

https://environmentamerica.org/texas/events/microplastics-in-our-bodies-what-health-experts-are-starting-to-see/

04/09/2026

Microplastics might be a little larger than you think! What qualifies as microplastic is really anything between 5mm (the size of a grain of rice) to one micrometer. Anything smaller than one millimeter might be classified as nanoplastics.

Environment Texas is working hard to stop plastic pellet pollution, AKA “nurdles” which are a large, easily preventable source of microplastics in our state. Everyone should be able to agree that companies need to keep plastic pellets out of our waterways and should clean them up when they do spill. We just need Governor Abbott to act. Take action at the link in our bio.

03/27/2026

We visited the site of the March 5 Union Pacific train derailment in Weatherford, Texas again on March 24 and unfortunately found that pre-production plastic pellets were still uncovered and escaping into the environment.

Take action by signing our petition at the link in our bio and signing up to participate in the International Plastic Pellet Count on May 2nd.

More than 10 trillion plastic pellets escape into our environment every year, and once in the environment they are almost impossible to remove. Wildlife often eat plastic pellets, since they resemble fish eggs and float on water. Additionally, since they start small, once in our waterways they can more easily degrade into even smaller microplastics.

Texas needs to do more to both stop these spills and ensure that when they do happen, they are covered and cleaned up promptly.

After contacting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about this spill, they told us that, “TCEQ regulations specify that for an incident involving industrial solid waste to be reportable, the release must exceed 100 pounds and impact waters of the state.” Since this spill did not directly enter a state-owned waterway, Union Pacific is not even required to give TCEQ a final report on the cleanup of the spill.