Energy - Deceleration (Page 2)

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?

‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

The Texas oil export boom has left Coastal Bend residents in harm’s way. A rainbow coalition is facing an uphill battle to compel the enforcement of environmental regulations, to mixed results. Can they save themselves before it’s too late?

By Alex Ip

/ 24 May 2025

‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

CERAWeek: Eight Arrests Outside Houston’s ‘Super Bowl’ of Energy as Hundreds Convene to Imagine a Future Free of Fossil Fuels

As calls for ‘Drill Baby Drill’ and ‘Mine Baby Mine’ filled the conference rooms at Hilton Americas in Houston, hundreds gathered outside to imagine what many described as the more just, sustainable, and inevitable world we all actually need.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Mar 2025

CERAWeek: Eight Arrests Outside Houston’s ‘Super Bowl’ of Energy as Hundreds Convene to Imagine a Future Free of Fossil Fuels

Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

‘Why is CenterPoint Energy making billions while people die? Why is Encor and other electric utilities making massive profits, when none of that comes back to us?’ — Dave Cortez, Texas Sierra Club

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Feb 2025

Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

How the Rise of ‘Petro-Masculinity’ Threatens Climate Progress

‘Petro-masculinity’ occurs when rising authoritarianism, climate denial, and misogyny meet, argues scholar Cara Daggett.

By The 19th

/ 14 Jan 2025

How the Rise of ‘Petro-Masculinity’ Threatens Climate Progress

Is Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Working to Enshrine Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Constitution?

Fueled by extreme climate denial, this Texas-based fracking billionaire has the support of JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick, to rewrite the Constitution for a number of far-right priorities.

By DeSmog

/ 30 Oct 2024

Is Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Working to Enshrine Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Constitution?

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

To best navigate our climate crisis, the people of greater San Antonio need their City Council to seize the controls of our wayward City-owned utility.

By Darby Riley

/ 25 Sep 2024

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future