San Antonio

Deceleration stories rooted in greater San Antonio/Bexar County and the surrounding areas, including the communities of Boerne, New Braunfels, Hondo, and Floresville.

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

By Greg Harman ● Climate ● October 29, 2025

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019.

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‘No Kings’: San Antonio Turns Out for Nation’s Largest Ever Day of Protest

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● October 20, 2025

Speakers in Travis Park in San Antonio challenged soldiers to disobey ‘unlawful orders,’ workers to organize to break the power of billionaires, and everyday folks to work together to halt Trump’s authoritarian drive.

San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff ‘No Action’ Recommendation

By Greg Harman ● Extreme Heat ● October 17, 2025

Mayor Jones and several Council members said more efforts are needed to understand who is losing their lives to extreme heat to prevent future deaths—even as City Manager Erik Walsh and Metro Health Director Claude Jacob suggested existing heat-facing city programs are enough.

San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths

By Greg Harman ● Extreme Heat ● October 14, 2025

Deaths from extreme heat are widely undercounted across Texas, the U.S., and the world. But those cities that are trying—from NYC to Las Vegas—are finding hundreds of deaths per year to include.

Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say

By Greg Harman ● Solutions ● October 9, 2025

Medical professionals, advocates, and policy experts from San Antonio, Texas, share recent successes, challenges, and urge movement to keep residents safe from high heat and punishing pollution. 

San Antonio Heat Death Efforts Stalled As Council and Mayor Battle Over Process

By Greg Harman ● San Antonio ● September 17, 2025

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones insists proposals must first be screened by city attorney, city manager before council can discuss. A vote Thursday could resolve the dispute and put heat work back in motion.

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.

Discipline & ‘Delusion’: Key Lessons from the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union Victory in San Antonio

By James Courtney ● San Antonio ● June 26, 2025

A Deceleration Q&A with Union Leader Megan Navarro.

Housing Insecurity: Extremity of Federal Attacks on Social Services Require a Coordinated Response, Local Leaders Say

By Greg Harman ● San Antonio ● May 24, 2025

‘Real solutions are not cheap.’ Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert presents plan for 3,000 additional Permanent Affordable Housing units—and commits to tracking (and preventing) heat-related deaths.

Meet the Women Leading Us From ‘Overwhelm’ Into ‘Action’

By Jennifer Lane ● Solutions ● April 14, 2025

Lesley Ramsey and Joyous Windrider Jimenez have made the health and wellbeing of people the root of their community activism. That and smashing stuff up.