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Texas Supreme Court Issues Ruling: strikes down the Laredo plastic bag ordinance; fight is not over; Laredo to unveil a new awareness campaign for public and retailers

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Our Mission

To preserve and protect the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo, its watershed and environment, through awareness, advocacy, research, education, stewardship and bi-national collaboration for the benefit of present and future generations.

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​THANK YOU to our Love Laredo B.I.G. (Bag It Green!) members who have joined the campaign and have pledged to not offer thin plastic bags at their place of business, and to keep using reusable bags!

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Our Work

Advocacy

Awareness

Education

Science

Advocacy

We advocate often and mobilize around an environmental cause, based on science, to implement changes that will have a lasting and positive effect.

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Awareness

RGISC highly values outreach and regularly holds fun community events  to engage the public and increase awareness of pressing environmental issues.

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Education

RGISC engages in several education projects. One of them is a large-scale bi-national project that involves nearly a hundred schools throughout the entire watershed basin.

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Science

 For nearly 20 years, RGISC has conducted monthly water quality testing. Data from these sites are submitted to federal and state authorities and is part of the TCEQ database.

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