Energy - Deceleration

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil?

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims

Coalition including City of Port Isabel allege failure to consider Rio Grande LNG impact on air quality, public health in new lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower Texas coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Dec 2025

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims

Calhoun County’s First ‘People’s Microplastics Conference’ Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics

Activists and researchers engaged in a two-day first-of-its-kind gathering in Calhoun County on the insidious entangling of all life on Earth with plastics, a creation of fossil fuels.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 15 Dec 2025

Calhoun County’s First ‘People’s Microplastics Conference’ Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their enforcement before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Dec 2025

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

While not as hazardous as oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide’s unique properties—and potential boom to anticipated 69,000 miles of pipelines—mean new laws are needed to keep communities safe.

By Syris Valentine

/ 9 Dec 2025

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Nov 2025

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S.

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.

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.

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers

/ 26 Sep 2025

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

Texas Utilities Failing Climate Challenge, Sierra Club Report Finds

Xcel Texas bags a B, CPS Energy a C, while others like the Lower Colorado River Authority are deemed stuck swimming in coal slurry, earning an F in this year’s ‘Dirty Truth’ utility rankings.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Sep 2025

Texas Utilities Failing Climate Challenge, Sierra Club Report Finds

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.

By DeeDee Belmares

/ 23 Jul 2025

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

‘You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry’: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

A rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents tried every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

By Alex Ip

/ 3 Jun 2025

‘You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry’: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

‘I Was Having a Good Time’: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?

A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies did residents in.

By Alex Ip

/ 28 May 2025

‘I Was Having a Good Time’: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?