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Dangerous Texas Memorial Day Heat Made Five Times More Likely By Global Warming

Punishing heat arriving across South Texas this week places most residents in region under ‘extreme’ threat of negative heat-related health impacts.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 May 2024

Dangerous Texas Memorial Day Heat Made Five Times More Likely By Global Warming

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

Federal regulators are targeting Spanish-speaking workers early this year in hopes of reducing deaths during 2024’s extreme heat. But large gaps in Texas heat surveillance means another avoidable season of suffering and death looms for workers, migrants, elderly, unhoused, and the incarcerated.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Apr 2024

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

VideoVIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response

Public health experts and community workers convened this week at Deceleration’s ‘Heat Emergency’ forum to connect the dots between extreme heat’s causes, local impacts, and how best to interrupt the gathering crisis and (hopefully) save some lives.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Apr 2024

VideoVIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response

Extreme Heat Could Have Killed Dozens in San Antonio During 2023, Says SAMMinistries CEO

SAMMinistries has tracked deaths within the unhoused community for years. Their CEO thinks extreme heat may have directly caused dozens of deaths and contributed to even more during 2023’s unprecedented heatwave. There is no local research initiative that can prove them right or wrong.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Apr 2024

Extreme Heat Could Have Killed Dozens in San Antonio During 2023, Says SAMMinistries CEO

Climate Advocates Must Be Amtrak Advocates Too

With billions of federal dollars flowing, the time is right to maximize our use of existing railway lines and realize hybrid rail across Texas—including Corpus Christi and Laredo.

By Lindsay Ratcliffe

/ 9 Apr 2024

Climate Advocates Must Be Amtrak Advocates Too

Take Action: ‘Heat Emergency’ Event Intends to Reduce Suffering, Highlight Solutions

Deceleration is assembling a panel of public health and community experts to lead a community conversation about the challenges of climate-driven extreme heat.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Mar 2024

Take Action: ‘Heat Emergency’ Event Intends to Reduce Suffering, Highlight Solutions

Oilfield Witness Documents Rampant Flaring and ‘Blowdowns’ across Permian Basin as Gas Prices Cool

With the new federal methane rule entering the home stretch, stranded gas in the Permian Basin could contribute to more flaring this year.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Mar 2024

Oilfield Witness Documents Rampant Flaring and ‘Blowdowns’ across Permian Basin as Gas Prices Cool

Biden 2.0 v. Trump 2.0: The Likely Climate Impact

A Carbon Brief analysis suggests a victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4B tons of US emissions by 2030—enough to tank global climate efforts and erase last five years of gains from renewables.

By Carbon Brief

/ 27 Mar 2024

Biden 2.0 v. Trump 2.0: The Likely Climate Impact

How Hearst’s ‘Weather Wonks’ Invisibilize Climate Crisis

Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Mar 2024

How Hearst’s ‘Weather Wonks’ Invisibilize Climate Crisis

These ‘Climate Grannies’ Aren’t Afraid to Get Arrested Protecting their Grandchildren

These ‘climage grannies’ have the generational wisdom, environmental activism experience, and plenty of free time to fight for climate action.

By The 19th

/ 1 Feb 2024

These ‘Climate Grannies’ Aren’t Afraid to Get Arrested Protecting their Grandchildren

Abbott’s Belligerence on Border Designed to Obscure his Culpability

Record levels of forced migration are tied to a climate crisis that Governor Greg Abbott helped shepherd into existence.

By Greg Harman

/ 28 Jan 2024

Abbott’s Belligerence on Border Designed to Obscure his Culpability

Are We About to Lose the Amazon?

Recent drying over the Amazon could be the “first warning signal” that the rainforest is approaching a tipping point, new research says.

By Carbon Brief

/ 5 Oct 2023