Abatements, or “sweeps,” of unhoused communities results in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year in the United States, a former City of San Antonio outreach worker writes.
Public health experts and community workers convened this week at Deceleration’s ‘Heat Emergency’ forum to connect the dots between extreme heat’s causes, local impacts, and how best to interrupt the gathering crisis and (hopefully) save some lives.
Residents of Corpus Christi, home to six refineries and the busiest oil export port in the United States, suffer from a utility burden that is more than twice the national average. Deceleration’s mapping project shows how utility burden, asthma, and of health insurance is linked for many across the
Click graphs above for Top US Climate Offenders, Top 10 Texas Climate Polluters, and the biggest Corpus Christi offenders. Data is from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory for point-source/
