In Austin, Texas, to discuss city-state government conflict, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens was forced to flee the popular convention after protesters chanted, unfurled a massive banner, and distributed flyers demanding an end to the ‘Cop City.’
‘Misplaced Trust’ found 4.2 million acres—or 3 million football fields—in Texas land trusts that were wrested from Native peoples. Similar findings mar university holdings across the West, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and elsewhere.
For most of the world, housing is at least understood as a human right. Yet in the richest nation on earth—and in San Antonio—the struggle continues for both housing justice action and agreement.
Targeting high water use, energy waste, and round-the-clock noise, opponents are challenging Bitcoin efforts in Navarro County, the author of ‘Let Them Eat Crypto’ writes.
On August 12, 2023, after enduring nearly a month of triple-digit temperatures Garcia, at age 56, passed away. Residents are now seeking to hold city and state agencies accountable for his death.
In this heavily drilled North Texas city, a UK-based investigative reporter finds echoes of TotalEnergie’s oil exploitation of Nigeria, Iraq, and Kurdistan.
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
Hazards from high temperatures inspire oil and gas companies to vent more than 500,000 pounds of toxins during 17 reported events. The Texas regulator did not respond to questions from Inside Climate News.
The Texas Lege’s failure to reform energy-intensive bitcoin mining in Texas means the industry will continue to expand alongside record-setting grid demand, extreme weather disasters, water strain, and rising consumer energy costs. Second thoughts, anyone?
