Gulf Coast - Deceleration

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

Oilfield Witness identified 532 unpermitted emission events reported by Freeport LNG since 2019, but just seven penalty fines levied by Texas’ environmental regulator.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 17 Sep 2026

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

Speaking with a fellow dispossessed about the evolving horrors of 'economic development' on the Lower Texas Coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 10 Sep 2026

How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

How self-loathing in the Rio Grande Valley helps facilitate ICE's war on our families, friends, neighbors...and systemic abuses of the land itself.

By Gaige Davila

/ 4 Sep 2026

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.

By Gaige Davila

/ 21 Jul 2026

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Jun 2026

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

Predictability, accountability, and hope, amidst a coastal city’s vanishing water supply.

By Gaige Davila

/ 8 May 2026

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Explosion: Fossil Fuels Will Always Spoil the Good Life

Coastlines/Faultlines Correspondent Gaige Davila examines the recent explosion at Port Arthur and the allowances residents make for a paycheck.

By Gaige Davila

/ 9 Apr 2026

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

'Coastlines/Faultlines' correspondent Gaige Davila reflects on the horrors of development—and loss of the wild—transforming the Lower Texas Coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 27 Mar 2026

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation

Welcome to the Coastlines/Faultlines Newsletter, where I’ll be writing about what harms and flourishes the coastal communities of Texas and northern Mexico.

By Gaige Davila

/ 5 Feb 2026

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation

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.

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

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.

By Gaige Davila

/ 3 Oct 2025

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

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

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 2 Oct 2025

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