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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Oct 2025

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

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

Historian Daniel Wortel-London explains why, looking at the case of New York City—with lessons for San Antonio as we consider public funding streams for Project Marvel.

By Daniel Wortel-London

/ 28 Oct 2025

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

By Emily Foxhall

/ 24 Oct 2025

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

Highlighting threat from wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking water source, the Edwards Aquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Oct 2025

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Oct 2025

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

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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Oct 2025

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

‘No Kings’ Protests to Sweep U.S. Saturday As Trump Admin Ramps Up Attacks on Civil Society

In reviving notions of “pre-crime,” the Trump administration has found a convenient way to treat all protest as “terrorism.”

By Deceleration Staff

/ 16 Oct 2025

‘No Kings’ Protests to Sweep U.S. Saturday As Trump Admin Ramps Up Attacks on Civil Society

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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Oct 2025

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

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 10 Oct 2025

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2025

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

Puerto Rico’s Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization

Almost a decade after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, the island’s first urban solar microgrid has become a model not just in transitioning away from US-imposed fossil fuels, but in putting ‘energy–the power to do work–into the hands of the people … for better living.’

By Arturo Massol Deya

/ 4 Oct 2025

Aerial view of colorful buildings with solar panels that make up an urban solar microgrid project.