Borderlands - Deceleration

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B ‘Project Jupiter’ Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso

Santa Teresa, Sunland Park residents wary of water, power use by the data center advanced by Doña Ana County last week.

/ 26 Sep 2025

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B ‘Project Jupiter’ Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso

Are We Witnessing the Stirring of a 21st Century North American Dust Bowl?

As El Paso sees its tenth dust storm of 2025, such storms across the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico are bringing closed highways, cancelled football games, car wrecks, and increased hospitalizations.

By Example User

/ 28 May 2025

Are We Witnessing the Stirring of a 21st Century North American Dust Bowl?

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

Even with their communities under assault, local elected leaders rising in solidarity are hard to find.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Apr 2025

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley

The Tamaulipan thornforest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border with Mexico. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

By Grist

/ 12 Apr 2025

One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 24 Mar 2025

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

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

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Environmental justice advocates and community members are celebrating this week after a D.C. Circuit Court finds federal review of two LNG projects failed their environmental analyses.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Aug 2024

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Right-Wing San Antonio Bloggers Busted for Drug Possession During Militia Border Tour

Near Eagle Pass, Texas officers arrested Celeste April Sparks and Jerry J. Pena-Ahuyon for drug possession after receiving information that someone in a caravan was pointing a gun at migrants, DPS report says.

By Francesca D’Annunzio

/ 26 Feb 2024

Right-Wing San Antonio Bloggers Busted for Drug Possession During Militia Border Tour

Approved Saguaro Gas Pipeline Could Damage Native Lands in Far West Texas—and More

Opponents of the Saguaro Connector Pipeline say it would do irreparable harm to sacred sites—and possibly feed an LNG boom—if it is allowed to link the Permian Basin to Mexico for export.

By Sara Sneath

/ 22 Feb 2024

Approved Saguaro Gas Pipeline Could Damage Native Lands in Far West Texas—and More

El Paso City Council ‘Unleashed the Climate Team’ with $1.2M AECOM Contract Vote

With climate planning in motion, City of El Paso has only a few months to produce a plan in order to qualify for major EPA support, says head of the city’s sustainability office.

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers

/ 10 Jan 2024

El Paso City Council ‘Unleashed the Climate Team’ with $1.2M AECOM Contract Vote

Mexican Water Debt Pits Treaty Obligations Against Needs of Farmers In Extreme Drought

In 2020, rebellious Mexican farmers occupied a dam in parched Chihuahua state to prevent the federal government from sending its reservoir water to Texas under a 1944 treaty. With the clock ticking toward another treaty deadline, the two sides are struggling for a solution.

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Oct 2023

Mexican Water Debt Pits Treaty Obligations Against Needs of Farmers In Extreme Drought

Abbott’s Border Wall Meets the Endangered Milkweed

While courts have concluded the federal government can waive virtually any laws it wants to build walls on the US-Mexico border, the same can’t be said for Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s promised state efforts.

By Daniel Braaten

/ 17 Apr 2023

Abbott’s Border Wall Meets the Endangered Milkweed