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Growing solutions to an overheating world. Deceleration is an environmental justice journal rooted in South Texas.
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· Dec 9
Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans.
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
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?
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Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year – Deceleration
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 ...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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?
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From the mouth of our favorite indie trans news site to your ears/heart:
A benefit of having a gazillion little indie news outlets is that we're much more difficult for the administration to suppress. Titans can be felled. A swarm has no weakpoint to target.
Thanks to @mallorycarra.com for telling the story of independent journalism as a tool of resistance in the US.
Thanks to @mallorycarra.com for telling the story of independent journalism as a tool of resistance in the US.
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
From the mouth of our favorite indie trans news site to your ears/heart:
It's not your imagination.
Decembers are getting hotter in Texas.
Fossil fuels are to blame.
Decembers are getting hotter in Texas.
Fossil fuels are to blame.
January 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It's not your imagination.
Decembers are getting hotter in Texas.
Fossil fuels are to blame.
Decembers are getting hotter in Texas.
Fossil fuels are to blame.
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Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump reut.rs/3YWbo3K
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Federal regulators overseeing the Rio Grande #LNG project outside of Port Isabel and Brownsville, #Texas, are still failing to consider the operation’s anticipated air pollution and the resulting impact on public health, according to a new lawsuit.
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Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims – Deceleration
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. Coalition includ...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Federal regulators overseeing the Rio Grande #LNG project outside of Port Isabel and Brownsville, #Texas, are still failing to consider the operation’s anticipated air pollution and the resulting impact on public health, according to a new lawsuit.
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#SanAntonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund controversial Guajolote Ranch a day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the #TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential #water #contamination.
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Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing – Deceleration
A day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential water contamination, San Antonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fu...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#SanAntonio planners set a date to consider a proposal to help fund controversial Guajolote Ranch a day after Bexar County Commissioner’s urged the #TCEQ to reconsider the project’s approval for fear of potential #water #contamination.
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Deceleration Video: #ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex
A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising #humanrights catastrophe in the #UnitedStates.
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A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising #humanrights catastrophe in the #UnitedStates.
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Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex – Deceleration
A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Deceleration Video: #ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex
A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising #humanrights catastrophe in the #UnitedStates.
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A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising #humanrights catastrophe in the #UnitedStates.
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Lawsuit: Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande #LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts
Coalition including City of #PortIsabel allege failure to consider impact on air quality, public health in lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower #Texas coast.
#climate #energy
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Coalition including City of #PortIsabel allege failure to consider impact on air quality, public health in lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower #Texas coast.
#climate #energy
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Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims – Deceleration
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. Coalition includ...
deceleration.news
December 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Lawsuit: Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande #LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts
Coalition including City of #PortIsabel allege failure to consider impact on air quality, public health in lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower #Texas coast.
#climate #energy
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Coalition including City of #PortIsabel allege failure to consider impact on air quality, public health in lawsuit seeking to stop buildout along lower #Texas coast.
#climate #energy
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"I really believe that we have to end the #plastic era. I really believe that the #fossilfuels in this plastic is killing our planet, and we have to turn that around and start thinking totally different."
—Diane Wilson, fisherwoman, activist
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—Diane Wilson, fisherwoman, activist
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December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I really believe that we have to end the #plastic era. I really believe that the #fossilfuels in this plastic is killing our planet, and we have to turn that around and start thinking totally different."
—Diane Wilson, fisherwoman, activist
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—Diane Wilson, fisherwoman, activist
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“Every sediment sample that we have taken … every single water sample we have taken: every single one has #plastics in it.”
—Sandra Metoyer, Environmental Institute of #Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
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#fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health
—Sandra Metoyer, Environmental Institute of #Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
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#fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health
Calhoun County’s First 'People's Microplastics Conference' Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics – Deceleration
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. Activists and r...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“Every sediment sample that we have taken … every single water sample we have taken: every single one has #plastics in it.”
—Sandra Metoyer, Environmental Institute of #Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
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#fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health
—Sandra Metoyer, Environmental Institute of #Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
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#fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #texas #health
EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated: New report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.
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EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States – Deceleration
New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission. New report f...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated: New report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.
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In 2025, poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin—co-founder of Words for Birds and longtime organizer of San Antonio’s National Poetry Month calendar of activities—published not one but two new #poetry collections of deep interest to Deceleration readers. deceleration.news/jim-lavilla-...
Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time – Deceleration
Writer James R. Dennis reviews the work of a poet of the natural world as he gleans both beauty and lessons from the 'weathered, scruffy landscape' of Atascosa County, Texas.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In 2025, poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin—co-founder of Words for Birds and longtime organizer of San Antonio’s National Poetry Month calendar of activities—published not one but two new #poetry collections of deep interest to Deceleration readers. deceleration.news/jim-lavilla-...
The Trump admin spiked plans to tighten regulations on carbon dioxide #pipelines, but past accidents and an expected boom in such pipelines suggests stronger oversight is needed, writes @shapersyris.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Trump admin spiked plans to tighten regulations on carbon dioxide #pipelines, but past accidents and an expected boom in such pipelines suggests stronger oversight is needed, writes @shapersyris.bsky.social
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Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans.
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans.
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
The disappointments of #COP30 should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living. Convo w/ @ashishkothari.bsky.social of @vikalpsangam.bsky.social & Global Tapestry of Alternatives.
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PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari – Deceleration
Reflecting on the disappointments of COP30 climate conference should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The disappointments of #COP30 should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living. Convo w/ @ashishkothari.bsky.social of @vikalpsangam.bsky.social & Global Tapestry of Alternatives.
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My latest for @deceleration.news marks the full-throated return to the white nationalism of the Naturalization Act of 1790, which limited naturalization at the time to “‘free white person[s]’ ... the root of the entire ICE surge from the start.
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We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA's Rampant ICE Abuses – Deceleration
For our future security and happiness it is imperative to both discover the root of our legitimate grievances and resist being manipulated by falsehoods and racism. For our future security and happine...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My latest for @deceleration.news marks the full-throated return to the white nationalism of the Naturalization Act of 1790, which limited naturalization at the time to “‘free white person[s]’ ... the root of the entire ICE surge from the start.
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Via @mcortez.net: With #COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end #fossilfuels and #deforestation, #BDS activists in #Texas escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.
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As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide – Deceleration
With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, fro...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Via @mcortez.net: With #COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end #fossilfuels and #deforestation, #BDS activists in #Texas escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.
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A little dated but important read from @harmanity.bsky.social. Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.
#ICE #SATX
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#ICE #SATX
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Children Among 'More Than 140' Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio – Deceleration
Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs. On Monday night mor...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A little dated but important read from @harmanity.bsky.social. Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.
#ICE #SATX
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#ICE #SATX
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With global ecological systems unraveling, #RightsofNature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. New reporting by Laura Hayter, with @garnglobal.bsky.social at #COP30.
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Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration
With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. A...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
With global ecological systems unraveling, #RightsofNature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property. New reporting by Laura Hayter, with @garnglobal.bsky.social at #COP30.
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New podcast up with organizers from @vetsaboutface.bsky.social on their #RighttoRefuse campaign, as part of a gallery exhibit of anti-war and anti-imperialist veteran art for #ArmisticeDay.
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PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration
In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war a...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New podcast up with organizers from @vetsaboutface.bsky.social on their #RighttoRefuse campaign, as part of a gallery exhibit of anti-war and anti-imperialist veteran art for #ArmisticeDay.
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#SATX friends: On Nov 16, our co-editor @mcortez.net will be reading from The Bird Church (from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social) alongside poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin (who has a new chapbook on Thoreau out from Alabrava Press) and James Finley (who writes about Thoreau and abolition). Yall come.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#SATX friends: On Nov 16, our co-editor @mcortez.net will be reading from The Bird Church (from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social) alongside poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin (who has a new chapbook on Thoreau out from Alabrava Press) and James Finley (who writes about Thoreau and abolition). Yall come.
A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social.
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New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration
Delaney Nolan's distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social.
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Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio.
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Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration
What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty. For many in attenda...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio.
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Via Ashley Smith @truthout.org: just up I-35, a critical case out of @txst.edu in the struggle for freedom to teach and learn in #Texas.
With @tomalter.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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With @tomalter.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for 'Crime' of Speaking at Socialism Summit – Deceleration
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again. Alter is a beloved teacher, a member of the Texas State Employees Union, and the a...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Via Ashley Smith @truthout.org: just up I-35, a critical case out of @txst.edu in the struggle for freedom to teach and learn in #Texas.
With @tomalter.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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With @tomalter.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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From @gaigedavila.bsky.social:
A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all 7 operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last 5 years, finds a new report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social.
#CorpusChristi
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A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all 7 operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last 5 years, finds a new report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social.
#CorpusChristi
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Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S. – Deceleration
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. LNG plants i...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
From @gaigedavila.bsky.social:
A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all 7 operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last 5 years, finds a new report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social.
#CorpusChristi
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A massive expansion of LNG is planned in the U.S. But already all 7 operating U.S. LNG terminals have violated the Clean Air Act repeatedly in the last 5 years, finds a new report from @envirointegrity.bsky.social.
#CorpusChristi
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