Gaige Davila, Author at Deceleration

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

By Gaige Davila ● Reporting ● December 11, 2025

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.

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

By Gaige Davila ● Gulf Coast ● November 6, 2025

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.

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

By Gaige Davila ● Water ● October 3, 2025

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.

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

By Gaige Davila ● Water ● October 2, 2025

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

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

By Gaige Davila ● Texas ● April 29, 2025

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

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

By Gaige Davila ● Biodiversity ● January 28, 2025

‘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.

Raining SpaceX Debris Raises Impact Fears as Musk Ascends Alongside Trump

By Gaige Davila ● Gulf Coast ● January 21, 2025

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.

How SpaceX Is Colonizing South Texas En Route to ‘Occupying Mars’

By Gaige Davila ● Gulf Coast ● November 30, 2024

Reflections from 70 feet above Port Isabel, Texas, on why Elon Musk’s MAGA alignment—including his support for long promised mass deportations—will forever change the meaning of his rocket launches.

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

By Gaige Davila ● Gulf Coast ● October 22, 2024

Dozens gathered, prayed, and marched in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest neighborhood to highlight the damages suffered across the coast due to what they describe as a history of elected leaders putting industry profits above the lives of residents.

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

By Gaige Davila ● Solutions ● October 16, 2024

‘Clean Slate’ candidates charge that decades of prioritizing heavy industry has threatened the area’s water security and risks spoiling the region’s natural wealth.

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