Reporting - Deceleration (Page 2)

Lennar’s Controversial Guajolote Ranch MUD Request Getting Cautious Treatment by San Antonio Council

Spurned by regional elected leaders, Lennar’s pursuit of 2,900 homes at Guajolote Ranch, in spite of risks to area drinking water, speaks volumes about broken planning processes and a widening local-state power divide.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Jan 2026

Lennar’s Controversial Guajolote Ranch MUD Request Getting Cautious Treatment by San Antonio Council

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns, according to this investigation by ProPublica.

By ProPublica

/ 22 Jan 2026

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.

Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.

By Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 21 Jan 2026

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.

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

/ 19 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