Environment Texas is is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. (You may see references to its former name, the Texas Public Interest Research Group, or TexPIRG.)

The major issues that Environment Texas and GHASP collaborate on are environmental enforcement and mercury issues.

• We both believe that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the US EPA have a terrible track record when it comes to taking enforcement against chemical plants and refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.
• We have worked together to educate the public on the hazards of mercury contamination in seafood, due primarily to emissions from coal-fired power plants. We also support the legislative efforts of Environment Texas to reduce mercury emissions statewide and nationally.

We are also very pleased to participate in the Texas Environmental Leadership Program (TELP). Through the TELP, we've had the assistance of a number of excellent interns and given them a promising start to their careers.