How Three Women Rebuilt the Federal Climate Website That Trump Trashed
After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline.
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Climate
Highlighting the sources of climate disruption and solutions to help cool our communities and the planet.
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CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow
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Greg Harman
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San Antonio Boosts its ‘Heat Resilience Playbook’ as Texas Cities Seek to Adapt to Rising Temps
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Greg Harman
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Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds
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Greg Harman
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Energy
Energy generation, access, affordability, and the impacts our energy decisions on our health and security.
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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.
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Greg Harman
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Human Rights
Examining the movements for and against individual & collective rights, state violence, war and militarism, genocide, and ecological stability.
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Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens
Speakers at Saturday's ‘Apply Heat’ day of action decried the rising numbers of ICE-related deaths and called for long-term resistance.
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Greg Harman
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Democracy
Preserving, nurturing, and expanding grassroots democratic governance and resisting the forces of disinformation, authoritarianism, and white supremacy.
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New York State Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers
In a first among U.S. states, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday implementing a one-year moratorium on data center permits while the state develops regulatory protections for communities and the environment.
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Biodiversity
Animal and plant relatives, land protection, and the politics of public spaces, including efforts to rewild and protect half of our planet's lands and waters.
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$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans
The contract comes just a week after Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the agency would not build a wall in Big Bend National Park.
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Arts & Letters
Book and film reviews, poetry, visual art, short fiction, and creative nonfiction in the service of regeneration and a thriving planet.
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'Many Worlds, Celebrate!' A Call for Submissions
Through August 2, Deceleration invites poems, flash fic and creative nonfic, song, and art for our upcoming summer Creative Review highlighting counterimaginaries for the U.S. 250th.
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Water
Water planning, scarcity, industry, and the right of all people to safe and affordable water.
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Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought
In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.
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Deceleration Opinion
Commentary at the intersection of environment and justice from Deceleration's editors.
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Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism
From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress.
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Community Voices
Guest opinions from the broader Deceleration community.
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Preparamos kits de emergencia para nuestros vecinos del Valle del Río Grande — se utilizan para su supervivencia diaria
A medida que las «crisis» climáticas afectan cada vez más a las zonas más prósperas de Estados Unidos, se extienden como una sombra sobre esta región fronteriza.
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