Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims
Coalition including City of Port Isabel allege failure to consider Rio Grande LNG impact on air quality, public health in new lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower Texas coast.
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Deceleration is growing solutions to an overheating world. We highlight the latest regional, national, and global developments in climate and environmental justice to better inform local action.
Rooted in the greater South Texas bioregion, Deceleration is inspired by intellectual and political movements around the world for degrowth, buen vivir, the right to the city, and the rights of nature/mother earth.
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Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing
A day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential water contamination, San Antonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund the development.
Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex
A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.
ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico
Camp East Montana, a massive tent ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, opened in August and now holds about 2,700 detainees.
Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You?
Q&A with the ferocious and talented (and focused) fisherwoman activist Diane Wilson after the first People’s Microplastics Conference in Calhoun County.
Calhoun County’s First ‘People’s Microplastics Conference’ Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics
Activists and researchers engaged in a two-day first-of-its-kind gathering in Calhoun County on the insidious entangling of all life on Earth with plastics, a creation of fossil fuels.
EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States
New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.
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Extreme Heat
San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff ‘No Action’ Recommendation
Mayor Jones and several Council members said more efforts are needed to understand who is losing their lives to extreme heat to prevent future deaths—even as City Manager Erik Walsh and Metro Health Director Claude Jacob suggested existing heat-facing city programs are enough.
San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths
Deaths from extreme heat are widely undercounted across Texas, the U.S., and the world. But those cities that are trying—from NYC to Las Vegas—are finding hundreds of deaths per year to include.
Solutions
As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide
With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.
Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference
With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property.
COP30 in Brazil: Five Issues to Watch
“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”
Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say
Medical professionals, advocates, and policy experts from San Antonio, Texas, share recent successes, challenges, and urge movement to keep residents safe from high heat and punishing pollution.
Decolonial
‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide
Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.
Puerto Rico’s Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization
Almost a decade after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, the island’s first urban solar microgrid has become a model not just in transitioning away from US-imposed fossil fuels, but in putting ‘energy–the power to do work–into the hands of the people … for better living.’
Biodiversity
Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference
With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property.
COP30 in Brazil: Five Issues to Watch
“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”
‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere
In a moment when increasing state repression of protest is coupled with vigilante violence, the Olympic Forest Defenders offer lessons to all about how to build power and mitigate risk while taking direct action against ecocide.
Four Wildlife Success Stories—That Require Continued Federal Engagement
The Endangered Species Act has long enjoyed broad-based support. These species show success is an option.