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Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 27 Aug 2025

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

From her many decades working to make space for thinking at the intersections of nature, culture, and justice, scholar-‘artivist’ Kamala Platt reflects on highlights from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s biennial gathering last month.

By Kamala Platt

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

The Climate Movement Needs to Move Beyond Billionaire-Backed Philanthropies

As the super-rich bend the knee to MAGA’s demands, the empowerment of local climate and environmental justice struggles will require grassroots funding networks to survive and continue to notch wins for their communities.

By Syris Valentine

/ 4 Apr 2025

The Climate Movement Needs to Move Beyond Billionaire-Backed Philanthropies

Breaking the Grip of Polluting Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley: Researchers Uncover Hard Facts

In spite of federal hostility toward frontline communities under President Trump, new grassroots research into toxic emissions could yet spark locally led reform in Louisiana.

By Frances Madeson

/ 5 Feb 2025

Breaking the Grip of Polluting Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley: Researchers Uncover Hard Facts

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Nov 2024

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

TAKE ACTION: Attend Our Panel on Environmental Justice & De/Coloniality

On November 17 at 9am CST, join Deceleration and Environmental Humanities at UTSA in a co-sponsored virtual keynote panel on environmental justice and de/coloniality. What’s that, you ask?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Nov 2021

EP13: Charles Roundtree Bloom Project; Rights of Nature in SATX, Yanawana Herbolarios

Deceleration.Live Episode 13 comes after a month-long break at the broadcast. In it we weave together several critical conversations on emerging movements and thought rising in San Antonio, including

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jul 2020

EP13: Charles Roundtree Bloom Project; Rights of Nature in SATX, Yanawana Herbolarios

VIDEO: ‘Hidden History’ of SA’s Environmental Resistance

From the Great Flood to climate action, San Antonio’s equity struggles reflected in its environmental fights. EDITOR’S NOTE: Who lives and who dies in the wake of disaster

By Greg Harman

/ 28 Oct 2019

VIDEO: ‘Hidden History’ of SA’s Environmental Resistance

A Perfect Texas Storm: Climate, Migration, and Eco-Fascism

By Annie H. Hartnett In one of my earliest memories, I am standing in front of my house on the coast of Mississippi watching the waves roil and swell, surging

By Marisol Cortez

/ 17 Sep 2019

A Perfect Texas Storm: Climate, Migration, and Eco-Fascism

Sept. 8, 2018: ‘Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice’

Push back against Trump anti-worker, anti-planet agenda this fall by demanding a ‘just transition’ to a 100-percent renewable economy and millions of ‘family-sustaining jobs.’ Jessica Corbett Commons Dreams The Peoples

By Greg Harman

/ 28 May 2018

Sept. 8, 2018: ‘Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice’

Hurricane Harvey: ‘Invisible’ Suffering Six Months Later

“It’s not rocket science to understand that disasters exacerbate inequality. Those communities that struggled before the storm are still struggling after.” Democracy Now! This week marks six months since

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Feb 2018

Flooded Communties after Hurricane Harvey

GRANT: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Seeks to Fund Grassroots Environmental Justice Projects

Link to Complete RFP

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Feb 2017

GRANT: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Seeks to Fund Grassroots Environmental Justice Projects