Gulf Coast Archives – Deceleration

Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You?

By Roxana Rojas ● Gulf Coast ● December 15, 2025

Q&A with the ferocious and talented (and focused) fisherwoman activist Diane Wilson after the first People’s Microplastics Conference in Calhoun County.

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

By Roxana Rojas ● Gulf Coast ● December 15, 2025

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.

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.

Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop

By Gaige Davila ● Water ● October 3, 2025

City Manager Peter Zanoni said the City will “likely” cancel their contract with Nebraska-based Kiewet for desal project—but questions remain if state water loan could go to other options.

Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project

By Gaige Davila ● Water ● October 2, 2025

Council members meet Friday to consider an offer from Houston-based wastewater company to operate a long-pursued desalination plant they recently rejected.

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

By Dylan Baddour & Inside Climate News ● Gulf Coast ● September 3, 2025

Years of blundering and project delays have pushed the South Texas city to the brink of crisis as drought bears down and industrial water use grows. The project’s failure leaves an uncertain future for Corpus Christi.

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

By Elyse Hauser ● Gulf Coast ● July 1, 2025

The U.S. military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore.

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

By Alex Ip & The Xylom ● Gulf Coast ● May 28, 2025

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

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

By Alex Ip & The Xylom ● Texas ● May 24, 2025

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?

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

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● March 14, 2025

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.