We chose clean water. Will the Senate?
More than 740,000 people voiced their support for restoring Clean Water Act protections to America's streams. Now polluters are pushing the Senate to vote to block us.
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Through Environment Texas, thousands of citizen members are teaming up with a professional staff to stand up for the places we love and the environmental values we share.
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After devastating budget cuts in 2011, this spring, the Legislature restored funding for state and local parks. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department had warned that 20 state parks would have to close without additional funds. But after a public outcry—including thousands of petition signatures from Environment Texas members—the Legislature boosted funding by $62 million. That's enough to keep all our state parks open, make critical repairs, replant trees destroyed by wildfire at Bastrop State Park, and to give grants to cities to build new parks, ball fields and playgrounds.
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