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CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

Climate emissions have been growing in San Antonio, despite Council and utility pledges to drive them down. Monday's CPS Board action all but guarantees future targets will remain out of reach as Texas cooks.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Jun 2026

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

City of San Antonio's Development Services hosts its second meeting of a data center Stakeholder Discussion Group dedicated to industrial power use.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Jun 2026

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Jun 2026

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Dow's plan to power production with modular nuclear reactors comes under community scrutiny this weekend.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Jun 2026

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Jun 2026

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

Frustration marked public hearing for Vantage Data Center’s TX2 expansion plans at Highway 151 and Wiseman.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jun 2026

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State

Plus: Massive global data center study, Trump's fake oversight EO, accelerating surveillance of data center opposition, action opportunities, y más.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Jun 2026

'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State

Dozens of Countries Just Met to Chart a Path off Fossil Fuels—No Lobbyists Invited

At the first international conference of its kind, almost 60 nations shared ideas, exchanged best practices, and discussed the hurdles they face in their effort to end their dependence on oil, gas, and coal.

By Syris Valentine

/ 29 May 2026

Dozens of Countries Just Met to Chart a Path off Fossil Fuels—No Lobbyists Invited

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

Writers and artists from San Antonio to Quezon City respond to James Baldwin's historic words about 'every bombed village' being our own hometowns as we witness US-backed bombs fall on Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela, and so many other places.

By Shelley Ettinger and Marisol Cortez

/ 28 May 2026

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Rapid shifts from extreme drought to deadly floods is a feature, not a bug, in our new fossil-fuels modified climate. Here's what you need to know.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 May 2026

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar and Inside Climate News

/ 22 May 2026

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress.

By Marisol Cortez and Deceleration Staff

/ 20 May 2026

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism