Energy - Deceleration

Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance

City of Round Rock is 'business friendly ... resident hostile.' A Q&A with Gary Oldham of Protect Round Rock

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Feb 2026

Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance

Is North Texas Silo Mills Community Built on Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste?

Thousands of homes and an elementary school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out.

By Texas Observer

/ 18 Feb 2026

Is North Texas Silo Mills Community Built on Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste?

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

When completed the 7.7GW facility would release 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases—nearly 5 percent of the total annual emissions of Canada.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 7 Feb 2026

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

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

Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil?

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Jan 2026

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

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

Coalition including City of Port Isabel allege failure to consider Rio Grande LNG impact on air quality, public health in new lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower Texas coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Dec 2025

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

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

Activists and researchers engaged in a two-day first-of-its-kind gathering in Calhoun County on the insidious entangling of all life on Earth with plastics, a creation of fossil fuels.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 15 Dec 2025

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

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

New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their enforcement before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Dec 2025

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

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

While not as hazardous as oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide’s unique properties—and potential boom to anticipated 69,000 miles of pipelines—mean new laws are needed to keep communities safe.

By Syris Valentine

/ 9 Dec 2025

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

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

A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all seven operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last five years, a new report finds.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Nov 2025

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

Puerto Rico’s Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization

Almost a decade after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, the island’s first urban solar microgrid has become a model not just in transitioning away from US-imposed fossil fuels, but in putting ‘energy–the power to do work–into the hands of the people … for better living.’

By Arturo Massol Deya

/ 4 Oct 2025

Aerial view of colorful buildings with solar panels that make up an urban solar microgrid project.

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B ‘Project Jupiter’ Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso

Santa Teresa, Sunland Park residents wary of water, power use by the data center advanced by Doña Ana County last week.

By Diego Mendoza-Moyers

/ 26 Sep 2025

Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B ‘Project Jupiter’ Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso

Texas Utilities Failing Climate Challenge, Sierra Club Report Finds

Xcel Texas bags a B, CPS Energy a C, while others like the Lower Colorado River Authority are deemed stuck swimming in coal slurry, earning an F in this year’s ‘Dirty Truth’ utility rankings.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Sep 2025

Texas Utilities Failing Climate Challenge, Sierra Club Report Finds