Reporting - Deceleration

Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970

As warming driven by fossil fuels and ecological destruction accelerates, Texas summers are bleeding deeper into fall and winter.

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil?

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims

Coalition including City of Port Isabel allege failure to consider Rio Grande LNG impact on air quality, public health in new lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower Texas coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Dec 2025

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims

Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing

A day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential water contamination, San Antonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund the development.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Dec 2025

Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Dec 2025

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico

Camp East Montana, a massive tent ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, opened in August and now holds about 2,700 detainees.

By Cindy Ramirez

/ 16 Dec 2025

ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico

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

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

By Roxana Rojas

/ 15 Dec 2025

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

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

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.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 15 Dec 2025

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

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their enforcement before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Dec 2025

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

While not as hazardous as oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide’s unique properties—and potential boom to anticipated 69,000 miles of pipelines—mean new laws are needed to keep communities safe.

By Syris Valentine

/ 9 Dec 2025

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

Mujeres Marcharan Launch Campaign to End Femicide in Texas

Demands call for properly categorizing murders of women and female children as femicide, on the way toward ending femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Dec 2025

Mujeres Marcharan Launch Campaign to End Femicide in Texas

As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide

With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 1 Dec 2025

As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide