Energy Archives – 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.

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Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

By Syris Valentine ● Energy ● December 9, 2025

While not as hazardous as oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide’s unique properties—and potential boom to anticipated 69,000 miles of pipelines—mean new laws are needed to keep communities safe.

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.

Texas Utilities Failing Climate Challenge, Sierra Club Report Finds

By Marisol Cortez ● Energy ● September 24, 2025

Xcel Texas bags a B, CPS Energy a C, while others like the Lower Colorado River Authority are deemed stuck swimming in coal slurry, earning an F in this year’s ‘Dirty Truth’ utility rankings.

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

By Marisol Cortez ● Energy ● August 27, 2025

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

By DeeDee Belmares ● Community Voices ● July 23, 2025

To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.

‘You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry’: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

By Alex Ip & The Xylom ● Gulf Coast ● June 3, 2025

A rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents tried every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

In Midst of San Marcos Drought, Water-Hungry Data Centers Seek Zoning Exemption to Operate

By Myra Dumapias ● Water ● June 1, 2025

With Tuesday night vote approaching, Deceleration asked Texas-based researcher Sloan Rucker of the Data Center Action Coalition about the merits of developer arguments.

‘I Was Having a Good Time’: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?

By Alex Ip & The Xylom ● Gulf Coast ● May 28, 2025

A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies did residents in.

Cleaning Fracking’s Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States

By Dylan Baddour & Inside Climate News ● Energy ● March 31, 2025

One company, Natura Resources, wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.