Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
Republican state leaders stripped cities of the ability to require water breaks for workers, but Texas cities are still fighting to create more habitable conditions for their residents as dangerous heatwaves continue to expand.
Rio Grande Valley residents are at particular risk from extreme heat, according to a study presented last week by an emerging partnership between state and federal weather and health officials.
Repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases “isn’t about saving taxpayers’ money, it’s about saving an industry that has already been exposed as a permanent danger to American families,” said the head of 350.org.
‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price of ever expanding militarization.
Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.
Republican state leaders stripped cities of the ability to require water breaks for workers, but Texas cities are still fighting to create more habitable conditions for their residents as dangerous heatwaves continue to expand.
