pollution - Deceleration

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.

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 27 Aug 2025

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

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

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?

By Alex Ip

/ 24 May 2025

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

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

A bill in the Texas Legislature would protect the last 21 pristine watersheds. But for years, previous attempts have been defeated by powerful homebuilders.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 29 Apr 2025

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

‘Given the lack of previous stakeholder participation, a change in spacecraft type, and the dramatically expanded area, which is further affected by ocean currents, it is unclear what the impact will be on Hawaii,’ the bill’s text reads.

By Gaige Davila

/ 28 Jan 2025

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Nov 2024

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

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

New EPA Rules Could Force Dirty San Miguel Coal Plant To Close

South Texas landowners and communities have long decried the land and water pollution from the coal plant and adjacent lignite mining operations, one of the most contaminated locations in the state.

By James Courtney

/ 19 Jun 2024

New EPA Rules Could Force Dirty San Miguel Coal Plant To Close

Oil Companies Seek Permits to Dump 18M Gallons per Day Into the Pecos River Watershed

Texas regulators are issuing permits to discharge treated produced water. But questions remain about toxic pollutants in the wastewater.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 9 May 2024

Oil Companies Seek Permits to Dump 18M Gallons per Day Into the Pecos River Watershed

VideoVIDEO: Monterrey Iron & Metal Pollution Community Forum

Request that could lead to reforms of rules overseeing recycling facilities advances to City of San Antonio Governance Committee on March 20.

By Greg Harman

/ 15 Mar 2024

VideoVIDEO: Monterrey Iron & Metal Pollution Community Forum

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

Gulf Coast Activist Diane Wilson Seeks to Hold Formosa Accountable for Toxic Spill in Vietnam

Goldman Environmental Prize-winning activist and fourth-generation fisherman Diane Wilson cites jailing and mistreatment of those seeking justice for the devastation of coastal fisheries in launching the solidarity Global Hunger Strike.

By Diane Wilson

/ 3 Nov 2023

Gulf Coast Activist Diane Wilson Seeks to Hold Formosa Accountable for Toxic Spill in Vietnam