Environmental justice news and analysis for San Antonio and the the South Texas bioregion.
Public health experts and community workers convened this week at Deceleration’s ‘Heat Emergency’ forum to connect the dots between extreme heat’s causes, local impacts, and how best to interrupt the gathering crisis and (hopefully) save some lives.
‘They spent millions of dollars pushing desalination and all the money went to lawyers, permitting and public relations. The idiots sold water they didn’t have,’ said a local retired chemical engineer.
Near Eagle Pass, Texas officers arrested Celeste April Sparks and Jerry J. Pena-Ahuyon for drug possession after receiving information that someone in a caravan was pointing a gun at migrants, DPS report says.
Federal regulators are targeting Spanish-speaking workers early this year in hopes of reducing deaths during 2024’s extreme heat. But large gaps in Texas heat surveillance means another avoidable season of suffering and death looms for workers, migrants, elderly, unhoused, and the incarcerated.
With the new federal methane rule entering the home stretch, stranded gas in the Permian Basin could contribute to more flaring this year.
Focusing too tightly on emissions reduction can keep governments and grassroots movements from dealing with the actual sources of environmental decay.
With billions of federal dollars flowing, the time is right to maximize our use of existing railway lines and realize hybrid rail across Texas—including Corpus Christi and Laredo.
Deceleration is assembling a panel of public health and community experts to lead a community conversation about the challenges of climate-driven extreme heat.
Caspar Henderson’s remarkable work, “A Book of Noises,” explores the planet’s astonishing sonic landscape, both natural and human-made.
A new report from the Climate Investigations Center shows how the gas industry used Big Tobacco’s playbook to manufacture controversy around the health-damaging emissions from indoor gas stoves.
For more than 75 years, the Palestinian people have been resisting occupation, dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, imprisonment, the denial of basic human rights and other injustices from the Israeli state.
