How to Make the Rio Grande Grand Again
Here’s a better vision for the US-Mexico border. Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, University of Texas at Austin The United States and Mexico have shared their current international border for nearly 170 […]
Category Archives: U.S.
Helping Harvey’s Frontline Communities as the Pipes Break
“People don’t know what’s seeping into their air and their homes.” Two explosions and “plumes of black smoke” were reported early Thursday morning at an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, […]
Bringing the arts into ‘Extreme Heat’ climate struggle
Breaking down the climate crisis to what city residents can feel deeply without an often assumed understanding of the science behind the rapid destabilization of the biosphere, the first of […]
Border Wall RFP Released: Impenetrable … Beautiful?
Solicitation Number: 2017-JC-RT-0001 issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, February 24, 2017. See additional details, such as above possible schematic, at Virtual Builder’s Alliance. From CNN Wire: U.S. […]
Victoria Texas Mosque Fire Ruled Arson
Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune Investigators said Wednesday that someone intentionally set the fire that destroyed a mosque two weeks ago in Victoria, the South Texas town that has since rallied […]
Fracking, Mining, Damming: ‘Homemade’ Quakes Increasing
[EDITOR’S NOTE: As clear and vital as the following article is, it avoids entirely a sleeping giant of human-caused earthquake risk: climate change. If you’re interested in how our industrially […]
West Texas Hole May Meet 5K Tons of Radioactive Fuel
By Kiah Collier/Texas Tribune A controversial radioactive waste dump in far West Texas is one step closer to being able to accept high-level nuclear waste. A controversial radioactive waste dump […]
Resisting Trump Order at SA International
Part of a gathering movement in San Antonio, Texas, and reflective of actions taking place across the country and around the world, a group of roughly 40 area residents occupied […]
White House Pipeline Push a War on Treaty Rights, Climate
Trump claims Keystone XL represents 28,000 jobs, multiplying most likely impact by 10 times, in latest ‘alternative fact’ peddled to American people President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders […]
Women’s March: Tens of Thousands ‘Waltz Across Texas’
The day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, tens of thousands of Texans took part in marches across the state Saturday during Texas’ multiple iterations of the Women’s March […]
‘Ominous’: Trump Hotel in DC Bans Journalists During Inauguration Week
Lease agreement with U.S. General Services Administration prohibits closing access. The Trump International Hotel in Washington has banned the press from its premises for inauguration week, Politico reports Wednesday. Politico […]
Contested Texas Pipeline Linked to Mexico’s Climate Pledge
But That’s No Reason Not to Fight Oil & Gas Development on Both Sides of the Rio Grande. Trampling of landowner rights. Failure to consult native tribes. Soiling a cherished […]
Agent Orange: Major Dump of Toxic Mission, Tx-Related Docs
Consistently, one of the most trafficked pages on Deceleration is a reprint of an article I wrote about the poisoning of the people of Gulfport, Miss., by Agent Orange chemicals […]
Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How is it measured and what it means. Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists agree […]
Game Over? Nobel Laureates Decry Climate Denial Agenda
Tabulating the amount of carbon stored in the Canadian tar sands, retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen said the burning of that tarry storehouse while continuing a business-as-usual petroleum-powered agenda […]
Bamboozled: A cure for Trump’s snake oil
Smooth-talking con artists are familiar figures in American folklore. The well-dressed hustler arrives in an unsuspecting town. He pitches some miracle cure or get-rich-quick scheme, door-to-door or from atop a […]
Where Will the (New) Border Walls Go?
The last round of border wall construction passed through Texas nearly a decade ago following the 2006 Secure Fence Act, with steel barriers being cut through nature preserves and private […]
Corpus Christi’s Water Ban Linked to Valero Contamination
More than 300,000 residents to avoid all contact with city water. Corpus Christi officials have identified a chemical that is suspected to have leaked into the Texan city’s tap water […]