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Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes in San Antonio Subdivision as Underground Methane Creeps Closer

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.

By Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 25 Oct 2026

Alternative Futures

Could This ‘Donut’ Save a World Straining on the Edge of Collapse?

During 'Global Donut Days 2026,' people across the planet gathered to explore how we can humanity's needs while staying within the planet's already straining ecological limits.

By Syris Valentine

/ 24 Oct 2026

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Wars are Driving New LNG Projects Across Texas & Louisiana Gulf Coast

By Victoria Zurner and Oil & Gas Watch

/ 20 Oct 2026

Wars are Driving New LNG Projects Across Texas & Louisiana Gulf Coast

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Trump Crashing in Texas: ICE Fights, Technofascism, and More From Deceleration's 'Brake Room' Podcast

By Deceleration Staff

/ 16 Oct 2026

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Three Data Centers Could Undo the Millions El Paso and New Mexico Spent on their Climate Plans

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers and El Paso Matters

/ 16 Oct 2026

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'Days Without Power': Sudden Storm Tears Across San Antonio, Exposing Entrenched Vulnerabilities

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Sep 2026

Climate

Extreme Heat Risk Roaring into Texas this Week (Slideshow)

By Deceleration Staff

/ 20 Aug 2026

Climate

‘Degrowth’ Principles Have Charged the U.S. Climate Movement—the Name Not So Much

By Syris Valentine

/ 10 Aug 2026

Climate

How Three Women Rebuilt the Federal Climate Website That Trump Trashed

By Jenae Barnes and The 19th

/ 17 Jul 2026

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Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes in San Antonio Subdivision as Underground Methane Creeps Closer

By Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 25 Oct 2026

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Wars are Driving New LNG Projects Across Texas & Louisiana Gulf Coast

By Victoria Zurner and Oil & Gas Watch

/ 20 Oct 2026

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Will People Have a Say on Data Centers Under San Antonio’s Evolving Regulations?

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Oct 2026

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Abbott Wants Your Utility—Deregulation, Billionaires, & City Power in Texas

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2026

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Abbott's Deregulation Threat Won't Cut Rates—But Could Spur Change from the Grassroots

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Oct 2026

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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility

By Greg Harman

/ 5 Oct 2026

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VIDEO: 'Prosecute This ICE Officer': How Cities Like Austin Can Help Stop ICE Violence

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Sep 2026

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How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

By Gaige Davila

/ 10 Sep 2026

Coastlines/Faultlines

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

By Gaige Davila

/ 4 Sep 2026

Human Rights

Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Jul 2026

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'Elite' Border Patrol Unit Joins Attacks on Protesters Resisting Trump’s Border Wall

By Mike Ludwig and Truthout

/ 10 Oct 2026

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Ag Sec Brooke Rollins Getting Rich Off Rising Gas Prices While Farmers 'Pay Through the Nose'

By Georgina Gustin and Inside Climate News

/ 10 Sep 2026

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New York State Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers

By Inside Climate News

/ 15 Jul 2026

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Democracy Lessons: How the People Defeated Orbán

By Daniel Hunter and Waging Nonviolence

/ 16 Apr 2026

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‘A Moral Obscenity’: Trump Seeks Military Budget Boost But Billions in Cuts to Social Programs

By Common Dreams

/ 5 Apr 2026

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Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land

By Syris Valentine

/ 11 Sep 2026

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Last Stand for Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge?

By Gaige Davila and Texas Observer

/ 25 Sep 2026

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VIDEO: Big Bend Border Wall Emergency Hearing & Rally in San Antonio, Texas

By Greg Harman

/ 31 Aug 2026

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'Massive Miscalculation': Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Construction in Big Bend National Park

By Democracy Now!

/ 19 Aug 2026

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After Crews Grind Through Big Bend, Feds (Again) Pause Border Construction

By Texas Tribune

/ 19 Aug 2026

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$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

By Ayden Runnels and Texas Tribune

/ 16 May 2026

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'The Practice of Hope': Re-Sanctifying Space in a City Under Deportation Siege

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Sep 2026

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'Many Worlds, Celebrate!'— Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review

By Marisol Cortez

/ 2 Sep 2026

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'Many Worlds, Celebrate!' A Call for Submissions

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/ 21 Jul 2026

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In Defense of Human-Created Artwork

By James Courtney

/ 16 Jul 2026

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'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

By Shelley Ettinger and Marisol Cortez

/ 28 May 2026

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How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

By Gaige Davila

/ 10 Sep 2026

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The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

By Gaige Davila

/ 4 Sep 2026

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Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence

By Tamara Pearson and Truthout

/ 15 Sep 2026

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Data Center Water Use in Texas Impossible to Quantify—Lawmakers Aren't Always Sure How to Reach The Operators

By Arcelia Martin and Inside Climate News

/ 10 Sep 2026

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Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar and Inside Climate News

/ 22 May 2026

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Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

By Greg Harman

/ 19 May 2026

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Corpus Christi is Declaring a ‘Water Emergency.’ What Does That Mean?

By Dylan Baddour, Neena Satija and Emily Salazar

/ 26 Apr 2026

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The Fight Against Surveillance Cameras Is a Struggle for Democracy

By Ed Vogel and Truthout

/ 24 Jul 2026

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Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

By Marisol Cortez and Deceleration Staff

/ 20 May 2026

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'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried

By Greg Harman

/ 11 May 2026

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8 Million Strong: 'No Kings' Turnout Breaks All Past Protest Records

By Greg Harman

/ 31 Mar 2026

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The Choice: Our Planet's Billions—Or the Guilty Petro Elite? (We Can't Have Both)

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Feb 2026

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Preparamos kits de emergencia para nuestros vecinos del Valle del Río Grande — se utilizan para su supervivencia diaria

By Bekah Hinojosa

/ 6 May 2026

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Could Ambitious 'Transition' Conference Finally Shift Us Out of the Fossil Fuels Era?

By Tzeporah Berman and Mongabay

/ 29 Apr 2026

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'God Squad' Could Push Gulf Species Toward Extinction

By Common Dreams

/ 27 Mar 2026

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MAGA's War on Disabled People Visible in ICE Attacks and Gutting of Medicaid

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/ 18 Feb 2026

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We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival

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/ 13 Feb 2026

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