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The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

Protecting threatened and endangered species has long been popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But can the Trump administration, which has moved to weaken the Endangered Species Act, be inspired to protect the species we love?

By Wendee Nicole

/ 21 Aug 2025

The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

Republican lawmakers have for years refused to engage with precautionary climate resilience and disaster-response measures.

By Candice Bernd

/ 15 Aug 2025

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

Hanging On In Tragedy-Stricken Texas Hill Country: ‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’

The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of ‘flash flood alley,’ who narrowly survived the river’s sudden rise.

By Candice Bernd

/ 22 Jul 2025

Hanging On In Tragedy-Stricken Texas Hill Country: ‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

The U.S. military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore.

By Elyse Hauser

/ 1 Jul 2025

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

Discipline & ‘Delusion’: Key Lessons from the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union Victory in San Antonio

A Deceleration Q&A with Union Leader Megan Navarro.

By James Courtney

/ 26 Jun 2025

Discipline & ‘Delusion’: Key Lessons from the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union Victory in San Antonio

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 13 Jun 2025

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States

Space Industry’s Explosive Growth Could ‘X’ the Earth’s Atmosphere

Rocket soot and vaporized satellite metals represent a massive—and largely unchecked—geoengineering experiment with massive potential planetary downsides.

By Syris Valentine

/ 4 Jun 2025

Space Industry’s Explosive Growth Could ‘X’ the Earth’s Atmosphere

‘You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry’: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

A rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents tried every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

By Alex Ip

/ 3 Jun 2025

‘You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry’: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

In Midst of San Marcos Drought, Water-Hungry Data Centers Seek Zoning Exemption to Operate

With Tuesday night vote approaching, Deceleration asked Texas-based researcher Sloan Rucker of the Data Center Action Coalition about the merits of developer arguments.

By Myra Dumapias

/ 1 Jun 2025

In Midst of San Marcos Drought, Water-Hungry Data Centers Seek Zoning Exemption to Operate

Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

Apex predators are critical to healthy ecosystems. These determined biologists and wildlands advocates are out to prove that wolves and ranchers, scientists and politicians can coexist in the recovery of Mexican gray wolves.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 29 May 2025

Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

‘I Was Having a Good Time’: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?

A playing field tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies did residents in.

By Alex Ip

/ 28 May 2025

‘I Was Having a Good Time’: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?

Are We Witnessing the Stirring of a 21st Century North American Dust Bowl?

As El Paso sees its tenth dust storm of 2025, such storms across the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico are bringing closed highways, cancelled football games, car wrecks, and increased hospitalizations.

By Example User

/ 28 May 2025

Are We Witnessing the Stirring of a 21st Century North American Dust Bowl?