Ambitious Climate Proposition Faces Fossil Fuel Backlash in El Paso

Inside Climate News · By Martha Pskowski · last updated April 30, 2023 – 1:12 AM

Sunrise El Paso put forward a charter amendment to transition the city off fossil fuels and explore creating a municipal electric utility. The chamber of commerce and the fossil fuel industry are mounting a scorched earth campaign to kill it.

By Martha Pskowski

EL PASO—For the first time, Texas voters have the chance to write climate action into a city charter.

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