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Clean Water

Victory! Houston abandons water privatization scheme after months of collective pressure

Late last week, we learned that the city of Houston has canceled the water privatization proposal that would have handed

Clean Water

The cost of doing business? Human rights and health impacts of fossil fuels in Houston

Today Amnesty International issued The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA. The report shows how

Just Climate Transitions

Artist-in-Residence Spotlight

Join us in welcoming BCWK’s first Artist-in-Residence, Fred Schmidt-Arenales. How do you think your work as artist-in-residence will impact BCWK’s work and our community?I hope that my project can help gather people and encourage them to become active and even leaders around the Coastal Barrier and around issues that are important to them around water and flooding in the region. At different stages of the project I’ve gathered people as performers, participants, audiences, and interlocutors in processes that very directly ask questions about civic participation, lack thereof, and the reasons for that. I hope that this can have an effect of getting more people more involved in working alongside BCWK. I hope that the film, once finished, can serve as a tool for continuing that work.

Clean Water

Texas Public Interest Environmental Conference

Bayou City Waterkeeper co-hosted the annual Texas Public Interest Environmental Conference, including community sessions on environmental justice, at Texas Southern University’s (TSU) Thurgood Marshall School of Law alongside Earthjustice, Public Citizen, and TSU. Over two days, lawyers, organizers, and community advocates met to share and learn from each other. In addition to hearing from many Texas-based attorneys, we had speakers from as far away as Missouri, Florida, and Vermont, and a panel with the Texas-based members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and founders of T.e.j.a.s. (Texas environmental justice advocacy services).

Protecting Wetlands

Testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

On October 18, 2023 Kourtney Revels, Water Justice Organizer for BCWK, shared Testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works examining the implications of Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Clean Water Act Protections of Wetlands and Streams.