Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Gulf Coast
How Do We ‘Defund’ Environmental Racism?
A conversation with John Beard of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in advance of an online panel highlighting the historic and ongoing struggles of frontline BIPOC communities in Louisiana and Texas.
Rising Nazi Terror and Nuclear Power Risk
Attacks on US energy infrastructure across the US are increasing. Meanwhile, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is mulling shifting more security obligations from plant owners to local law enforcement.
‘Colossal Giveaway’ to Polluters Is Starving Texas Public Schools
The monster tax abatement program known as Chapter 313 expired on Dec. 31, but a flurry of last minute proposals may have irreversible effects for decades into the future.
Race for ‘Green’ Gas Profits Leaving Much in the Dark
Special report: Rival U.S. firms lob differing, and debatable, climate claims as they market so-called ‘green’ liquefied natural gas to a warming world. Jeffrey Ball | Canary Media By night, the industrial operation sprawling across the marshland of Louisiana’s southwest tip seems otherworldly. The 1.6-square-mile complex of tubes, tanks and machinery […]
In Shadow of SpaceX, Tribe Fighting to Protect Sacred Sites from Elon Musk
The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas is suing to protect the tribe’s ancestral land in South Texas.
Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ Council Candidates Target Industrial Misbehavior on Gulf Coast
Community outrage over massive desalination project helps bind four local candidates challenging the logics of extraction at epicenter of US oil exports.
Wind Power Rush Headed to Gulf of Mexico
Upcoming offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico could bring jobs as well as clean energy to Texas communities.