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Abbott Wants Your Utility—Deregulation, Billionaires, & City Power in Texas

SpaceX 'Bombing,' Climate Collapsing, But Did a Japanese Bank Just Get Queasy on South Texas LNG?

'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility

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

Untangling Abbott's Deregulation Threat: Speaking with the Author of 'Brokers of Power'

VIDEO: 'Prosecute This ICE Officer': How Cities Like Austin Can Help Stop ICE Violence

Salvaging Materials—and Histories—from Buildings in San Antonio to Savannah

Did the Border Wall Just Break on Tiny San Ygnacio's Two-Acre Birding Sanctuary?

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

'The Practice of Hope': Re-Sanctifying Space in a City Under Deportation Siege

Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence

Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land

How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

'Days Without Power': Sudden Storm Tears Across San Antonio, Exposing Entrenched Vulnerabilities

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

'Many Worlds, Celebrate!'— Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review

Sharing—a Simple Approach to a Better Future

VIDEO: Big Bend Border Wall Emergency Hearing & Rally in San Antonio, Texas

Data Center Moratorium Proposal Squeaks Forward in San Antonio

A Chilling Tour of San Antonio’s Immigration Enforcement Machine

Extreme Heat Risk Roaring into Texas this Week (Slideshow)

After Crews Grind Through Big Bend, Feds (Again) Pause Border Construction

‘Degrowth’ Principles Have Charged the U.S. Climate Movement—the Name Not So Much

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

Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps

A Board Game of Climate Change Solutions? Yes, Please.

Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens

'Many Worlds, Celebrate!' A Call for Submissions

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

In Defense of Human-Created Artwork

New York State Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers

How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial

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

Black Seminole and Lipan Apache Ndé Groups Sign Historic Treaty During Juneteenth Celebration

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State

Dozens of Countries Just Met to Chart a Path off Fossil Fuels—No Lobbyists Invited

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

'Wherever the Bomb Falls'

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

Dealing Gov. Abbott a Blow, Federal Judge Blocked (Most Of) SB4 This Week

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

Inmates are Cooking in the Texas Prison System. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Data Centers Could Start Construction Before Receiving Air Permits, Under Proposed EPA Rule

'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried

Sen. Ted Cruz Working to Grant Fossil Fuel Companies 'Sweeping Legal Immunity'

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

US Drivers Bearing Brunt of Trump's War on Iran—Not So Much in Nations with More Renewables

Preparamos kits de emergencia para nuestros vecinos del Valle del Río Grande — se utilizan para su supervivencia diaria

Texas Cities Ramping Up Strategies to Battle Rising Heat

May Day Exhibit Celebrates San Antonio’s Labor Organizing History

100+ Groups Urge Congress to Reject Rushed Data Center Approvals

First Annual Heat Summit Convened by Physicians for Social Responsibility

Could Ambitious 'Transition' Conference Finally Shift Us Out of the Fossil Fuels Era?

Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle

'Slow Down or Die'—An Economist's Warning

Get Ready for a 'Long Hell' of a Summer, National Weather Service Official Warns

‘Unify to Dilley’ Inspires Hundreds to Converge Outside CoreCivic's Family Concentration Camp

After the Hunger Strike, an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Dow Goes On

Collaboration in a Time of Climate Crisis—It's Complicated

Democracy Lessons: How the People Defeated Orbán

ICE Watch: The Master Plan to Fill Detention Centers

Privatizing Our National Forests? Mass 'Reorganization' of Forest Service—Including Closing Nacogdoches Research Station—May be First Step

Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Explosion: Fossil Fuels Will Always Spoil the Good Life

Critical Texas Data Center Fights Happening Right Now

The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun

Endangered Species Act 'Disemboweled' by God Squad in 15 Minutes, Seven Seconds

Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast

8 Million Strong: 'No Kings' Turnout Breaks All Past Protest Records

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

'God Squad' Could Push Gulf Species Toward Extinction

Climate-Fueled Heat Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest

Lessons in Well-Being from the Pacific Islands During Capitalism's Collapse

Proposed SpaceX Land Swap with Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge

How the Prairieland 'Antifa' Verdict Threatens the Anti-Trump Resistance

Data Center Watch: Lessons from a San Marcos Coalition's Defeat of an AI Data Center

No Kings. No Trump Takeover.

Texas Data Center Boom + Todos Agua + Women Leading Drive to Abolish ICE

ICE Watch: How Women Are Leading the Way to a World Beyond Detention

Todos Agua III ~ Water Calls Us to Remember

Let's Oust Stephen Miller

Revolutionary Cry Rises at San Antonio's 36th Annual International Women's Day Rally & March

Deceleration 2026 Reader Survey

Clearcutting the Borderlands Threatens Native Rio Grande Habitat

'Looking Mexican' in the Age of ICE

Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds

Black Communities Are Building the Future

Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes

Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance

Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration

Youth Hold the Future—and There is No Room There for ICE

Our Planet's Billions—Or the Profiting Petro Elite? (We Can't Have Both)

SAWS Rate Hikes are Coming. How Fair is their Rate Structure?

MAGA's War on Disabled People Visible in ICE Attacks and Gutting of Medicaid

We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival

ICE Watch: Weaving a New World in the Twilight of Fascism's Sunset

Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives

‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S. Brings Record-Setting Pollution Permit to West Texas

Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More

ICE Buys Massive San Antonio Warehouse As Detained Population Approaches 75,000

‘Sea of Creatures’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

Protests of ‘Abolish ICE’ Reach Texas Dems as Trump’s Agents Count the Holes in the Dead

Wednesday Protest Planned in Support of Dilley Detainees Who Cried Out for Help this Weekend

Want ICE Out? Know These 10 Rules of Resistance

Amy Hardberger: It's Time to Talk About Growth Controls in Rural Texas

Lennar’s Controversial Guajolote Ranch MUD Request Getting Cautious Treatment by San Antonio Council

Has US Fascism Moved From a Theoretical Debate Into an Urgent National Crisis?

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.

PODCAST: Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features

Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970

Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year – Deceleration

Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims – Deceleration

Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing – Deceleration

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex – Deceleration

ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico – Deceleration

Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You? – Deceleration

Calhoun County’s First 'People's Microplastics Conference' Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics – Deceleration

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States – Deceleration

Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time – Deceleration

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat – Deceleration

PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari – Deceleration

Campaign to End Femicide in Texas Launched by Mujeres Marcharan – Deceleration

We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA's Rampant ICE Abuses – Deceleration

As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide – Deceleration

Children Among 'More Than 140' Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio – Deceleration

PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration

Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration

Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for 'Crime' of Speaking at Socialism Summit – Deceleration

Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S. – Deceleration

VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril – Deceleration

San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows – Deceleration

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years – Deceleration

TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat – Deceleration

'No Kings': San Antonio Turns Out for Nation's Largest Ever Day of Protest – Deceleration

San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff 'No Action' Recommendation – Deceleration

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

'Power for Palestine' Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio's Role in Genocide – Deceleration

Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say – Deceleration

Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop – Deceleration

Puerto Rico's Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization – Deceleration

REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration

We Must Reject Trump Admin Plot to Dismantle U.S. Progressive Movement – Deceleration

‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere – Deceleration

Degrowth: 'A Gateway into Socialist Thought for the 21st Century' – Deceleration

As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots – Deceleration

San Antonio Leaders Dangerously Bedazzled by Project Marvel Amidst Climate Breakdown – Deceleration

Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project – Deceleration

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B 'Project Jupiter' Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso – Deceleration

As Authoritarianism Surges Worldwide, Global South Communities Lead Way to Truly Democratic Alternatives – Deceleration

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One – Deceleration

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Deceleration is an online journal producing original news and analysis about our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justice with emphasis on the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South. Deceleration is inspired by movements for degrowth, buen vivir, right to the city, and the rights of Mother Earth.