San Antonio - Deceleration

Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes in San Antonio Subdivision as Underground Methane Creeps Closer

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.

By Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 25 Oct 2026

Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes in San Antonio Subdivision as Underground Methane Creeps Closer

Will People Have a Say on Data Centers Under San Antonio’s Evolving Regulations?

Two competing zoning proposals would decide whether new data centers would require a Council vote—or even public comment.

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Oct 2026

Will People Have a Say on Data Centers Under San Antonio’s Evolving Regulations?

City of San Antonio Sues ICE & Homeland Security in Bid to Stop ICE Detention Expansion

If resistance efforts fail, San Antonio appears poised to become the central hub for Trump’s deportation machine in Texas.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 15 Oct 2026

City of San Antonio Sues ICE & Homeland Security in Bid to Stop ICE Detention Expansion

Abbott's Deregulation Threat Won't Cut Rates—But Could Spur Change from the Grassroots

Deceleration speaks with longtime utility justice advocate DeeDee Belmares about years of campaigning to reform City of San Antonio-owned CPS Energy.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Oct 2026

Abbott's Deregulation Threat Won't Cut Rates—But Could Spur Change from the Grassroots

Data Center Moratorium Proposal Squeaks Forward in San Antonio

The more conservative City of Fort Worth's unanimous moratorium vote contrasts with a divided San Antonio council debating regulations for the fast-growing industry.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Aug 2026

Data Center Moratorium Proposal Squeaks Forward in San Antonio

Data Center Pause Proposed for San Antonio Until Impacts Can Be Addressed

City utilities should require recycled water and ‘clean energy’ sources of all new data centers, Councilman Galvan says in request for a special meeting this month.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 9 Aug 2026

Data Center Pause Proposed for San Antonio Until Impacts Can Be Addressed

Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions

While some Texas cities have advanced bans and moratoriums on data centers until the risks are better understood, San Antonio has proceeded more cautiously toward possible regulation. And some see economic opportunity.

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Jul 2026

Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

City of San Antonio's Development Services hosts its second meeting of a data center Stakeholder Discussion Group dedicated to industrial power use.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Jun 2026

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

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

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by writing the pain of those who have wounded us.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Oct 2025

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

Highlighting threat from wastewater to greater San Antonio’s largest drinking water source, the Edwards Aquifer, opponents threaten lawsuit, rehearing request.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Oct 2025

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat

San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths

Deaths from extreme heat are widely undercounted across Texas, the U.S., and the world. But those cities that are trying—from NYC to Las Vegas—are finding hundreds of deaths per year to include.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Oct 2025

San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths