Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
Hector Zertuche’s first environmental crime occurred around 2009 when he discovered a truckload of oilfield drilling muds dumped on the banks of the Nueces River outside Sandia. “We matched
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report’s summary for policy makers (pdf) released today — the first installment of the UN-affiliated body’s fifth report —
is in many
Frio County, Texas, Struggles with Fracking’s Leftovers
(First published at the Texas Observer.)
On a gravel road in rural Frio County, sheriff’s deputies are doing something they never
When The Population Bomb exploded on the scene in 1968 with breathless warnings that humans were breeding themselves into a global environmental catastrophe, it got a lot of people talking
Greg Harman
An explosion at a San Antonio power plant this week either bolstered the utility’s case for rate hikes to keep up with infrastructure maintenance demands or those
Upcoming and imminent events related to the sustainable path in San Antonio…
Tonight:
Public hearing on CPS Energy’s proposed rate hike
The first in what is likely to be
Carolyn Lochhead opens her recent sprawling indictment of human population growth as the driver of global environmental destabilization with a raft of Texas-specific statistics. Strung together with hardly a verb
Five years ago, Hurricane Ike – one of the costliest storms in U.S. history – plowed into Galveston Bay chewing through $29 billion in homes, businesses, roads, and bridges. It further
The Feds are considering worst-case disaster scenarios. Reporters should too.
Greg Harman
Years ago I had a semi-public disagreement (as much as Twitter snipes can be considered “public”) with another
The early Greeks knew a thing or two about unicorns. With elephant feet and a boar’s tail, these “Indian asses” were said to have a single horn that offered
When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, it was clear to anyone who looked closely that the widespread and indiscriminate spraying of pesticides like DDT was doing
Billions of gallons of water are wasted each year to fracture shale formations around the country and free trapped oil and gas. After the water is shot down a well,
