Reporting - Deceleration (Page 3)

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

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Nov 2025

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference

With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property.

By Laura Hayter

/ 13 Nov 2025

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference

COP30 in Brazil: Five Issues to Watch

“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”

By Grist

/ 12 Nov 2025

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Nov 2025

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.’s Rise

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.

By Ashley Smith

/ 6 Nov 2025

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Crime’ of Speaking at Socialism Summit

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.

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

As tensions rise over deployment of the military in U.S. cities, increasingly violent ICE arrests by unaccountable masked agents, and persecution of Trump’s political rivals, a photo exhibit and panel discussion reflects on the human impact of a dictator’s rise—and ultimate fall—in the Philippines.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 30 Oct 2025

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

The City of San Antonio’s planet-warming emissions ticked up in 2023, according to new data released on Monday. That interrupts gains made after adopting a climate action plan in 2019.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Oct 2025

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

By Emily Foxhall

/ 24 Oct 2025

Since Deadly July 4 Flood FEMA Has Denied or Failed to Advance Most Kerr County Aid Requests