Reporting - Deceleration (Page 6)

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

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