Alex Ip

Atlanta

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How Big Oil is ruining a small ‘slice of heaven’ town in Texas

3 weeks ago | floodlightnews.org | Alex Ip

This is a condensed story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight and Deceleration News. Subscribe to The Xylom's newsletter here. On Jan. 6, 2024, nine minutes before midnight, the police department in Ingleside, Texas, uploaded on Facebook a now-deleted public advisory about an oil leak from a tank at the Flint Hills crude oil export terminal. The roughly 700 members of Facebook group Citizens of the City of Ingleside on the Bay were in a frenzy.
'You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry': An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing – Deceleration

3 weeks ago | deceleration.news | Alex Ip

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is the third story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here.
“You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry”: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

4 weeks ago | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Paulina Velasco |Alex Ip

This is the third story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. As around 200 residents and advocates trickle into Portland Community Center on the evening of January 11th, 2024, they are greeted by a panel on a stage: Enbridge representatives to the left, TCEQ lawyers and permitting staff behind another table on the right.
“You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry”: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

4 weeks ago | thexylom.com | Alex Ip

This is the third story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. As around 200 residents and advocates trickle into Portland Community Center on the evening of January 11th, 2024, they are greeted by a panel on a stage: Enbridge representatives to the left, TCEQ lawyers and permitting staff behind another table on the right.
'I Was Having a Good Time': How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills? – Deceleration

1 month ago | deceleration.news | Alex Ip

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is the second story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration. Read part 1 here. On December 25th, 2022, the 614 residents of Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, woke up to a yellow Christmas.
“I Was Having a Good Time”: How Did a Small Town in South Texas Get Hit With Two Oil Spills?

1 month ago | thexylom.com | Alex Ip

This is the second story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 1 here. On December 25th, 2022, the 614 residents of Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, woke up to a yellow Christmas. Though South Texas avoided the worst of the Arctic “bomb cyclone” sweeping through the U.S. that week, Corpus Christi Bay was still more than 30 degrees colder than usual.
'All Hell Breaks Loose': How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town – Deceleration

1 month ago | deceleration.news | Alex Ip

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is the first story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration. On Jan. 6th, 2024, nine minutes before midnight, the police department in Ingleside, Texas, uploaded on Facebook a now-deleted public advisory about a local oil spill.
"All Hell Breaks Loose": How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

1 month ago | thexylom.com | Alex Ip

This is the first story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 2 and Part 3 here. On Jan. 6th, 2024, nine minutes before midnight, the police department in Ingleside, Texas, uploaded on Facebook a now-deleted public advisory about a local oil spill. “Flint Hills-INGLESIDE is reporting a release at one of their tanks.
Meet Aorui Pi, our new Engagement Editor and Public Health Writer

Nov 15, 2024 | thexylom.com | Alex Ip

I’ll get straight to the point: The Xylom will no longer post on the social media site X (formerly Twitter.) We had taken a hiatus from Twitter in late 2022 to assess the digital landscape after the site’s sale to Elon Musk; we returned in Spring 2023 in response to Atlanta-area reader demand for environmental accountability journalism. Our award-winning “Cop City” reporting and ongoing MARTA coverage have filled important news gaps for concerned residents and decision-makers.
Atlanta takes no Pride in MARTA’s weekend “special schedules”

Nov 4, 2024 | atlpresscollective.com | Alex Ip

We crunched the numbers of metro Atlanta’s weekend rail service cuts. Here’s what we found. by Alex Ip, the Xylom. Illustration by Alex Ip. This story was originally published by The Xylom, a non-profit, Gen-Z-run newsroom covering the communities influencing and being shaped by science. As Georgia’s oldest LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit, the Atlanta Pride Committee is likely used to pushback when organizing their annual Atlanta Pride, the largest free Pride festival in the United States.