About TEXAS EASEMENT ACTION ALLIANCE

The Texas Easement Action Alliance (TEAA) works to educate landowners and communities to support efforts that protect Texas life and land from risky fossil fuel projects, like the proposed DeLa Express Pipeline.

Miguel Escato and local organizers work with landowners and communities in Texas. Landowner Organizer Email for more information: miguel@oilfieldwitness.org.

TEAA is a part of a network of Easement Action Teams, a project of Bold Education Fund, that work in numerous states to handle outreach and education efforts with landowners.

Over the years, Easement Action Team landowners have also worked with various attorneys who have represented landowners across the Midwest and around the county in eminent domain battles, pipeline fights, and carbon dump site opposition. They have mounted landowner legal challenges to proposed projects and handled hundreds of lawsuits, including constitutional challenges and condemnation litigation.

Attorneys working locally with Texas Easement Action Alliance members include Chris Johns, lead partner at Cobb & Johns.

Chris represents individuals and businesses as they confront powerful interests on the other side: property owners in disputes with the government, landowners in eminent-domain cases, and others with an important cause in a civil trial or appeal.

Chris has won cases for clients in courts across the country—from state and federal trial and appellate courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where for seven years he taught an upper-level course on property rights and eminent domain.

Chris received his J.D. with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was editor in chief of the Texas Law Review and a member of the Chancellors honor society. He received Dean’s Achievement Awards in several of his classes.

Chris appears on the 2018 through 2024 lists of The Best Lawyers in America, a peer-selected honor. Texas Super Lawyers Magazine has named him to its “Super Lawyers” lists for every year from 2013 through 2023 and to its “Rising Stars” lists in 2013 and 2014. Chris has testified about property rights on invitation from the Texas Legislature, is a regular speaker at national and state CLE conferences, and has received multiple pro bono service awards.