We’re fighting for a pollution-Free Texas.

Since 1997, Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund has been working for clean air, water and land.

Our mission is to engage people and communities through face-to-face public education, grassroots organizing, and action-oriented research for a safer, healthier Texas.

Even though most of our staff are based in and native to the places we organize, TCE Fund never speaks over those most directly impacted by pollution. Instead, we’re dedicated to amplifying their voices and supporting their fight for – and their right to – clear air, clean water and safe, healthy communities.

Most importantly, TCE Fund is driven by our belief in a just and sustainable future for all Texans. Our commitment – to ourselves and to those we organize alongside – is to constantly seek out and act on the most effective ways to transform that vision into a reality.

Our Focus

TCE Fund goes where the fight is to protect our environment.

Over our history we’ve organized across a broad range of issues, from curbside recycling and composting to electronic waste, single-use plastics bans and fracking restrictions. We’ve watchdogged polluting industries and championed policy reforms at the federal, state and local level to hold polluters accountable and protect the health and safety of Texans. Through it all, we’ve worked to aid communities in every part of the Lone Star State in their fight against polluting facilities. 

Today, with the climate crisis as the defining environmental threat of our time – and with Texas’ outsized role as the nation’s largest producer of fossil fuels – TCE Fund’s issue focus has shifted to pushing back on oil, gas, petrochemical and plastics polluters, and their political and financial enablers. As always, we’re focused on doing whatever it takes to support Texans fighting for clean air and water in their own communities, and pushing back on the polluters and their pals who profit from climate destruction.

 
Oil & Gas Exports
 
Petrochemicals & Plastics

 
Tax Breaks For Polluters
 
Fossil Fuel Finance

Want to join our efforts and help fight for a pollution-free Texas?

When YOU engage in our campaigns, we can make real change in Texas – and all around the world.  Please sign up here for updates from our 501(c)(4) sister non-profit organization Texas Campaign for the Environment to let us know you’re ready to join our fight for a just, swift transition to a clean energy future.

 

Community voices

  • "I’ve been taking on polluters in my community for many years. I know the score. I know what it takes to stand up to big bosses and bullies. And I’ll tell you, TCE Fund is always right there beside us, helping us demand the justice we deserve."

    Lamont Taylor

    Hillcrest Residents Association

    Corpus Christi, Texas

  • “For too long, big polluters have been treating our coastal Texas communities like their personal dumping ground. Well, we’re not going to take it any more. With help from TCE Fund and many others, we’re organizing and pushing back hard.”

    Diane Wilson

    San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper

    Seadrift, Texas

  • “All along the Gulf Coast, big polluters are racing to build massive new facilities to export oil and gas. To protect our communities’ quality of life, we have to fight. Having TCE Fund in our corner means we can do that more effectively.”

    Sue Page

    Better Brazoria

    Surfside, Texas

  • “Polluting industry is the new instrument of tribal genocide. They are trying to erase us, but it’s not going to happen. The people and the land will have the final say. TCE Fund is our ally, and an ally of anyone under attack by polluters.”

    Juan Mancias

    Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

    Floresville, Texas

  • “Working people get the shaft from corporate polluters. Our lives and livelihoods are put on the line so billionaire CEOs can line their pockets. It can’t continue like this. We’re working with TCE Fund and others to create a different future.”

    James Hiatt

    Better Bayou

    Lake Charles, Louisiana

  • "I've been working closely with impacted communities on both sides of the Atlantic to help stop climate-wrecking, human-rights-violating fracked gas trading. TCE Fund has worked hard to build community trust, and has been a great collaborator.”

    Andy Gheorghiu

    International Anti-LNG Organizer

    Korbach, Germany