Reporting - Deceleration

How Three Women Rebuilt the Federal Climate Website That Trump Trashed

After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline.

By Jenae Barnes and The 19th

/ 17 Jul 2026

How Three Women Rebuilt the Federal Climate Website That Trump Trashed

New York State Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers

In a first among U.S. states, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday implementing a one-year moratorium on data center permits while the state develops regulatory protections for communities and the environment.

By Inside Climate News

/ 15 Jul 2026

New York State Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers

Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions

While some Texas cities have advanced bans and moratoriums on data centers until the risks are better understood, San Antonio has proceeded more cautiously toward possible regulation. And some see economic opportunity.

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Jul 2026

Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions

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