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Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say

Medical professionals, advocates, and policy experts from San Antonio, Texas, share recent successes, challenges, and urge movement to keep residents safe from high heat and punishing pollution.

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2025

Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say

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

How to Save Lives During This Coming Summer’s Heat Waves

After major cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service, the role of local governments in protecting people from dangerous weather is growing even more important.

By Yale Climate Connections

/ 18 Apr 2025

How to Save Lives During This Coming Summer’s Heat Waves

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

Volunteer- and anarchist-led groups are working overtime to keep their communities safe from COVID-19 even as Texas lawmakers debate a ban on masks and a warming planet promises more pandemics on the way.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 9 Apr 2025

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

A review of lessons learned about heat since the ‘90s; Plus! A guide to heat-busting efforts happening now in San Antonio, Texas

By Marisol Cortez

/ 18 Jul 2024

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

Cat 1 Hurricane Beryl Tests Houston’s Resilience, Finds Gaping Holes

Houston’s first direct hit from a hurricane in decades showed how vulnerable the nation’s energy capital remains.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 13 Jul 2024

Cat 1 Hurricane Beryl Tests Houston’s Resilience, Finds Gaping Holes

Life Around Gulf Coast Gas Export Terminals Marked by Explosions, Alarms, and Secrecy

As liquefied natural gas terminals grow exponentially along the U.S. Gulf Coast, experts raise alarm on low-risk, high-consequence events.

By Pam Radtke

/ 15 Mar 2024

Life Around Gulf Coast Gas Export Terminals Marked by Explosions, Alarms, and Secrecy

Deep Sea Mining May be Coming to the Texas Coast—But at What Cost?

Texas Congressmembers are lobbying for federal assistance to bring a Canadian seabed mining firm to the state. But Texas A&M researchers have reservations about the pace of development.

By Elyse Hauser

/ 7 Feb 2024

Deep Sea Mining May be Coming to the Texas Coast—But at What Cost?

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

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.

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 5 Jan 2024

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

Don’t Like People Dying from Extreme Heat? Join a Union.

Deceleration speaks with Texas AFL-CIO Deputy Policy Director Ana Gonzalez about extreme heat, worker deaths, and fighting forward in the midst of a climate emergency.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Jul 2023

Don’t Like People Dying from Extreme Heat? Join a Union.

Texas Ranks Among Most Climate Vulnerable Areas on Earth

New data highlighting extreme vulnerability of the global built environment ranks Florida, California, and Texas top among U.S. states to suffer from climate change.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Feb 2023

Texas Ranks Among Most Climate Vulnerable Areas on Earth

TAKE ACTION: Drive Valero Out of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival!

A new petition targeting San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival reminds us that fossil fuels poison communities, drive biodiversity collapse, and are a leading cause of climate chaos.

By Greg Harman

/ 30 Aug 2022

TAKE ACTION: Drive Valero Out of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival!