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In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Nov 2024

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

How to Prepare Yourself Now for Another Trump Presidency

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 7 Nov 2024

How to Prepare Yourself Now for Another Trump Presidency

A Reelected Trump Expected to Severely Restrict Already Shrinking Protest Freedoms

Experts raise alarms on Trump’s combative language and history of executive overreach, as well as GOP influence on state legislation criminalizing protest and free speech.

By Inside Climate News

/ 4 Nov 2024

A Reelected Trump Expected to Severely Restrict Already Shrinking Protest Freedoms

Another Midnight Call to Avert Authoritarian Capture and Climate Collapse

There is a cliff. We are throttling off of it. MAGA must be defeated.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Nov 2024

Another Midnight Call to Avert Authoritarian Capture and Climate Collapse

Protesters Disrupt VP Harris’s Houston Rally to Demand An End to Genocide

A local coalition faced a hostile crowd at Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium while repeatedly interrupting Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s speech.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 1 Nov 2024

Protesters Disrupt VP Harris’s Houston Rally to Demand An End to Genocide

Is Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Working to Enshrine Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Constitution?

Fueled by extreme climate denial, this Texas-based fracking billionaire has the support of JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick, to rewrite the Constitution for a number of far-right priorities.

By DeSmog

/ 30 Oct 2024

Is Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Working to Enshrine Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Constitution?

Five Ways to Approach the 2024 Election with a Movement Mindset

For those angsting over how to cast their vote, consider these insights on the role elections play in building long-term power.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 29 Oct 2024

Five Ways to Approach the 2024 Election with a Movement Mindset

Gentrification, Displacement, Heat Deaths, & the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union

We could know what happens to people after they are evicted. Just like we could know how many people are dying from extreme heat. In the struggle to stay housed, organizers must push against powerful entrenched forces that demand unknowing.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Oct 2024

BORDER911: The Font of ‘Invasion’ Misinformation Hitched to Donald Trump’s Star

Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges.

By Texas Observer

/ 24 Oct 2024

BORDER911: The Font of ‘Invasion’ Misinformation Hitched to Donald Trump’s Star

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

Inspired by the climate-driven insurance crisis, congressional candidate Devin Davis signed onto the full PLEDGE campaign, which uses electoral politics to build movement power to reject fossil fuels and resist becoming their ‘extraction colonies.’

By Frances Madeson

/ 22 Oct 2024

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

Dozens gathered, prayed, and marched in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest neighborhood to highlight the damages suffered across the coast due to what they describe as a history of elected leaders putting industry profits above the lives of residents.

By Gaige Davila

/ 22 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat

Traditional irrigation canals have long held communal—even ‘spiritual’—power while helping balance the water supply during droughts. But this communal system is increasingly threatened by commodication of water, growers say.

By Undark

/ 18 Oct 2024

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat