Dylan Baddour
The Texas Observer
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Natural Gas Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion
Regulators say the company fixed flaws at the natural gas plant which led compressed methane to burst from a pipe and catch fire. → Read More
Exxon’s Baytown and Valero’s Corpus Christi refineries top list of U.S. water polluters in 2021
A new report shows that seven of the 10 refineries dumping the most dissolved solids into... → Read More
Exxon's Bayton refinery ranks among leading US water polluters
A new report shows that seven of the 10 refineries dumping the most dissolved solids in the nation’s waterways are along the Texas Coast. → Read More
Texas project proposes using wind to make fuel from water
New subsidies authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act are powering the race to build the... → Read More
Texas project to use wind to make fuel from water
Subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act are powering the race to build the country’s first large-scale producer of “green hydrogen.” → Read More
Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water
Oil made Texas an energy giant, but even this petroleum powerhouse is working hard to secure a footing beyond fossil fuels. It already generates more wind energy than any other U.S. state, and soon the mighty air that lashes its high plains will power a novel new process: the production of vehicle fuel from water. […] → Read More
Army Corps withdraws approval to dredge superfund site on Texas Gulf Coast for oil tanker traffic
The Army Corps of Engineers has reversed its decision to dredge the Matagorda Bay Ship Channel through a Superfund site on the Texas coast between Galveston and Corpus. → Read More
Fracking waste gets second look to ease looming West Texas water shortage
Water costs fell 75 percent where pipeline infrastructure replaced truck transport to... → Read More
Q&A: Robert Bullard Led a ‘Huge’ Delegation from Texas to COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt
Robert Bullard has watched the concept of environmental justice grow from an obscure notion in Houston in the 1970s into a high-profile global movement aimed at abetting pollution and climate change. Bullard, a former dean and professor at Texas Southern University, has authored 18 books on environmental justice, and has attended 18 United Nations climate […] → Read More
Oil export project off Freeport quietly approved by Biden administration despite climate rhetoric
The Sea Port Oil Terminal, 30 miles off the Texas coast, is the first of four proposed... → Read More
Biden administration quietly approves huge Texas oil export project
The proposed offshore terminal is one of four projects intended to expand oil export... → Read More
Texas activists sit-in at DOT in Washington over offshore oil export plans
Deepwater terminals proposed in the Gulf will fuel oil output and export growth despite Biden Administration promises of steep cuts in emissions. → Read More
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it is losing the bet.
Corpus Christi’s pursuit of desalination has become an increasingly desperate race to meet incoming demands as its commitments to large industrial users are coming due. → Read More
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it’s losing the bet
Concerns over ecological damage to Corpus Christi Bay have delayed desalination plans for years. Some see water supply as a “chokehold” to block new infrastructure. → Read More
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon and is losing its big bet on desalination
Concerns over ecological destruction have delayed desalination plans for years. → Read More
Black residents in Corpus file civil rights complaint to stop Texas’ first seawater desalination plant
A civil rights challenge filed by Black Corpus Christi residents promises to delay the construction of a large-scale seawater desalination plant. → Read More
Indigenous leaders in Texas target global banks to keep LNG export off sacred land in Brownsville
Since Congress lifted the oil export ban, 3 proposed LNG export facilities have fallen victim to the protest. But the Ukraine war is an impetus for remaining projects. → Read More
Texas now the nation’s biggest emitter of toxic substances into streams, rivers and lakes
A new report puts Texas above the Great Lakes states for industrial discharges into... → Read More
Toxic Texas Revealed
The Lone Star State now ranks number one in industrial discharges into waterways, according to a new report issued by Environment America. → Read More
Texas now the nation's biggest emitter of toxic substances into streams, rivers and lakes
A new report puts Texas above the Great Lakes states for industrial discharges into waterways for the first time since the analysis began in 2009. → Read More