Gaige Davila - Deceleration

Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Explosion: Fossil Fuels Will Always Spoil the Good Life

Coastlines/Faultlines Correspondent Gaige Davila examines the recent explosion at Port Arthur and the allowances residents make for a paycheck.

By Gaige Davila

/ 9 Apr 2026

Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast

'Economic development' in the RGV means autonomous warfare cozying up alongside LNG buildout and space colonization as wild spaces are paved and locals increasingly feel the pinch of rising rents and groceries.

By Gaige Davila

/ 31 Mar 2026

Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

'Coastlines/Faultlines' correspondent Gaige Davila reflects on the horrors of development—and loss of the wild—transforming the Lower Texas Coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 27 Mar 2026

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation

Welcome to the Coastlines/Faultlines Newsletter, where I’ll be writing about what harms and flourishes the coastal communities of Texas and northern Mexico.

By Gaige Davila

/ 5 Feb 2026

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation

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.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Dec 2025

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims

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 enforcement before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Dec 2025

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Nov 2025

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop

City Manager Peter Zanoni said the City will “likely” cancel their contract with Nebraska-based Kiewet for desal project—but questions remain if state water loan could go to other options.

By Gaige Davila

/ 3 Oct 2025

Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop

Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project

Council members meet Friday to consider an offer from Houston-based wastewater company to operate a long-pursued desalination plant they recently rejected.

By Gaige Davila

/ 2 Oct 2025

Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

Even with their communities under assault, local elected leaders rising in solidarity are hard to find.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Apr 2025

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

‘Given the lack of previous stakeholder participation, a change in spacecraft type, and the dramatically expanded area, which is further affected by ocean currents, it is unclear what the impact will be on Hawaii,’ the bill’s text reads.

By Gaige Davila

/ 28 Jan 2025

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

Raining SpaceX Debris Raises Impact Fears as Musk Ascends Alongside Trump

For residents concerned about SpaceX operations in Cameron County, Texas, the year opened with a familiar feeling of regulatory impunity. But with apparent MAGA embrace of the Mars mission even these performances may soon be a thing of the past.

By Gaige Davila

/ 21 Jan 2025

Raining SpaceX Debris Raises Impact Fears as Musk Ascends Alongside Trump