epa Archives – Deceleration

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

By Gaige Davila ● Reporting ● December 11, 2025

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

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Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’

By Sharon Kelly, Emily Gertz & DeSmog ● Climate ● September 9, 2025

A 435-page review led by Texas A&M climate scientist Andrew Dessler found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.

Borderlands Teen Helps Net $13M for Heat-Busting, Air Quality Projects via EPA Grant

By Texas Tribune & Carlos Nogueras Ramos ● Solutions ● January 15, 2025

Presidio, northwest of Big Bend National Park, will get dedicated green spaces along bike lanes and pedestrian streets, plant thousands of native trees and establish a high-school run air quality monitoring program.

EPA Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples

By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● January 22, 2024

experiences Tribes have had developing and implementing their adaptation plans

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

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers ● Borderlands ● January 9, 2024

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.

How Some of the Biggest Texas Polluters Keep Skirting Federal Environmental Laws

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski & Inside Climate News ● Energy ● January 5, 2024

Industrial developers describe facilities as “minor” polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen.

Webinar: EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants

By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● February 8, 2023

Introductory webinar for state, territory, local, and tribal governments

San Antonio’s ‘Motor City’ Ambition Spells Trouble for Future Air Quality

By Greg Harman ● San Antonio ● April 13, 2022

Toyota Manufacturing came to San Antonio, in part, to save on the cost of pollution control technologies. Now with the EPA declaring Bexar County in nonattainment is it time to stop chasing auto manufacturing jobs?

Laredo Medical Equipment Plant Spewing Cancer-Causing Pollution on Schoolchildren

By Greg Harman ● Borderlands ● January 20, 2022

Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia.

Week Five, 2018: Bad Moons, Cedar War, & Owls for Peace

By Greg Harman ● Reporting ● January 30, 2018