Reporting - Deceleration

Black Seminole and Lipan Apache Ndé Groups Sign Historic Treaty During Juneteenth Celebration

The treaty highlights how colonial dispossession of both Indigenous and Black communities damaged generational relations among peoples. Does it also point the way toward healing our broken relationship with water?

By Mark Mallory

/ 30 Jun 2026

Black Seminole and Lipan Apache Ndé Groups Sign Historic Treaty During Juneteenth Celebration

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

Climate emissions have been growing in San Antonio, despite Council and utility pledges to drive them down. Monday's CPS Board action all but guarantees future targets will remain out of reach as Texas cooks.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Jun 2026

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

City of San Antonio's Development Services hosts its second meeting of a data center Stakeholder Discussion Group dedicated to industrial power use.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Jun 2026

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Dow's plan to power production with modular nuclear reactors comes under community scrutiny this weekend.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Jun 2026

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

Frustration marked public hearing for Vantage Data Center’s TX2 expansion plans at Highway 151 and Wiseman.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jun 2026

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar and Inside Climate News

/ 22 May 2026

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

Seeking fossil fuel superpower status, Japan and its megabanks have spent at least $38B on natural gas projects in Texas alone.

By Gaige Davila

/ 20 May 2026

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price of ever expanding militarization.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 May 2026

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

The contract comes just a week after Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the agency would not build a wall in Big Bend National Park.

By Ayden Runnels and Texas Tribune

/ 16 May 2026

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

Data Centers Could Start Construction Before Receiving Air Permits, Under Proposed EPA Rule

Allowing gas plants, factories, and data centers to move ahead of regulators would ramp up the pressure for permit approval.

By Charles Paullin and Inside Climate News

/ 12 May 2026

Data Centers Could Start Construction Before Receiving Air Permits, Under Proposed EPA Rule

Sen. Ted Cruz Working to Grant Fossil Fuel Companies 'Sweeping Legal Immunity'

Members of Congress in Texas and Wyoming tout the bills as protecting energy security, but opponents say they amount to a corporate handout that will cost taxpayers billions and harm human and environmental health.

By Jake Bolster and Inside Climate News

/ 8 May 2026

Sen. Ted Cruz Working to Grant Fossil Fuel Companies 'Sweeping Legal Immunity'

US Drivers Bearing Brunt of Trump's War on Iran—Not So Much in Nations with More Renewables

“The only real energy independence from the Middle East is renewables,” said one policy expert.

By Stephen Prager and Common Dreams

/ 6 May 2026

US Drivers Bearing Brunt of Trump's War on Iran—Not So Much in Nations with More Renewables