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News Highlights
EL PASO MATTERS - On May 3 (2025), we ousted both incumbents backed by ultra-wealthy donors. We stood up for kids who rely on buses and school meals. We stood up for those students who depend on the accessibility of our public school system. We were able to take a step toward ensuring equity in our city.
EL PASO MATTERS - Parents, employees and local advocates have been calling for the district to upgrade its evaporative air conditioning to refrigerated air, as climate change and school safety regulations have made it harder to keep schools cool.
NEXT CITY - El Paso’s youth launched a historic fight for the country’s first municipal climate charter. After a failed ballot initiative, the group is launching a new effort to bring climate action to Sun City.
NEXT CITY - There’s no debate anymore over science — the only question now is whether the people fighting for climate justice can build more power than those who profit from our destruction. We will achieve this through organizing.
THE GUARDIAN - Proposed El Paso climate charter seeks to prohibit use of city water for extraction projects including those in Permian Basin
THE NATION - El Paso is holding a special election on Saturday for one of the most important pieces of climate policy you’ve likely never heard of.
EL PASO TIMES - The economic recession that began in March 2020 due to the pandemic put a dent in oil and gas production, but the Permian Basin in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico is emerging from the slump.
EL PASO TIMES - Sunrise El Paso and Ground Game Texas delivered over 39,000 petition signatures to the El Paso City Clerk after a six-month campaign. Once the City Clerk validates the signatures, a question will be added to the Nov. 8 ballot on a charter amendment to adopt a citywide climate policy.
EL PASO TIMES - El Paso residents can now join a cooperative to benefit from reduced costs to install solar panels on their homes or business.
Analysis
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS -
Sunrise El Paso’s grassroots campaign was not enough to overcome the influence of a monopoly utility and fossil fuel companies at the ballot box.
EARTHWORKS - El Paso Electric Co. (EPE)–a private equity firm owned by JP Morgan Chase Bank–is profiting off the Permian Basin’s unprecedented level of fracking. By adding a new gas plant, they are locking in El Paso’s climate destruction for the next 20 years–but not if we stop it first.
EL PASO TIMES - The two industrial sites in El Paso that emit the most particulate matter and ozone precursors, driving regional air pollution, are El Paso Electric's Newman Station and the Marathon Refinery.
EL PASO MATTERS -
NBC - El Paso is among the worst places for ozone pollution. Hispanic residents who successfully sued for more regulation want to know why the state is fighting them.
SIERRA - El Paso, Texas, witnessed the first violent outburst of US eco-fascism—and is also a living rebuttal to the hateful ideology
by More Perfect Union