Gulf Coast - Deceleration (Page 2)

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

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.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 3 Sep 2025

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

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

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

By Elyse Hauser

/ 1 Jul 2025

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

‘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?

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

Raining SpaceX Debris Raises Impact Fears as Musk Ascends Alongside Trump

For residents concerned about SpaceX operations in Cameron County, Texas, the year opened with a familiar feeling of regulatory impunity. But with apparent MAGA embrace of the Mars mission even these performances may soon be a thing of the past.

By Gaige Davila

/ 21 Jan 2025

Raining SpaceX Debris Raises Impact Fears as Musk Ascends Alongside Trump

How SpaceX Is Colonizing South Texas En Route to ‘Occupying Mars’

Reflections from 70 feet above Port Isabel, Texas, on why Elon Musk’s MAGA alignment—including his support for long promised mass deportations—will forever change the meaning of his rocket launches.

By Gaige Davila

/ 30 Nov 2024

How SpaceX Is Colonizing South Texas En Route to ‘Occupying Mars’

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

Inspired by the climate-driven insurance crisis, congressional candidate Devin Davis signed onto the full PLEDGE campaign, which uses electoral politics to build movement power to reject fossil fuels and resist becoming their ‘extraction colonies.’

By Frances Madeson

/ 22 Oct 2024

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

Dozens gathered, prayed, and marched in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest neighborhood to highlight the damages suffered across the coast due to what they describe as a history of elected leaders putting industry profits above the lives of residents.

By Gaige Davila

/ 22 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

‘Clean Slate’ candidates charge that decades of prioritizing heavy industry has threatened the area’s water security and risks spoiling the region’s natural wealth.

By Gaige Davila

/ 16 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Environmental justice advocates and community members are celebrating this week after a D.C. Circuit Court finds federal review of two LNG projects failed their environmental analyses.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Aug 2024

DC Circuit Court Rules Against Texas LNG Projects

Community Vision for Corpus Christi Park Challenges Political Failures and Heat Island

Some of the oldest neighborhoods in Corpus Christi are also the city’s hottest, new Deceleration research reveals—but a rising interest in community care could help shift that.

By Gaige Davila

/ 19 Jul 2024

Community Vision for Corpus Christi Park Challenges Political Failures and Heat Island