Deceleration Podcast

About Deceleration Podcast

Deceleration Podcast is talking all things climate and environmental justice, rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion with global concerns. For the Earth. And all Her families. Eds. Marisol Cortez & Greg Harman Deceleration.news

Publisher

Marisol Cortez & Greg Harman

Category

news · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Sept 2016

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

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

   Send us Fan Mail Governor Greg Abbott wants to deregulate Texas city-owned utilities and hand those markets over to private shareholders. We break down what's at stake for Austin, San Antonio, and ~70 other municipalities. Research and recent reporting suggest Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to force Texas's city-owned utilities into the deregulated market is unlikely to lower anyone's power bill. What it would definitely do is strip cities of a major source of revenue, money Abbott's campaign ...

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

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

   Send us Fan Mail Elsa Hull was arrested twice this summer defending a roughly two-acre bird sanctuary on the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from border wall construction. Both times Zapata County, Texas, deputies dismissed her claims that recently unearthed documents show the federal government does not have the right to develop on this land—in spite of it being in a floodplain. And yet it's become remarkably quiet on the rio since that second arrest. Surveyors these days approach the boundary l...

3. 

   15 May 2026

   44: Texas Inmates are Cooking In Record-Breaking Heat—But Reforms May be on the Way

   Send us Fan Mail Texas is getting hotter—nearly four degrees hotter in just the last few decades. The last 10 years all rank among the hottest years ever on the planet, with residents forced to navigate sometimes months upon months of 100-plus-degree days. We know our unhoused neighbors, residents without sufficient cooling, or those with medical conditions are highly vulnerable to heat stress and wildly undercounted heat-related death. But imagine trying to survive this monster heat in a 6x9...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

67,659

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

13

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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