Dylan Baddour

Texas

Texas Correspondent at Inside Climate News

Covering Texas for @InsideClimate News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born, likes plants

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Plans advance for $10 billion Exxon plastics plant on the Texas coast

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Dylan Baddour

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here.
Plans Advance for Huge New Exxon Plastics Plant in Texas

2 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dylan Baddour

Plans for a large new plastics plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas crept forward on Tuesday evening when officials at a small, rural school district moved to enter into tax break negotiations with ExxonMobil, the project developer. The Calhoun County Independent School District board voted unanimously at a public hearing to begin developing the terms for an agreement with Exxon on its plan to build a $10 billion complex nearby.
In booming Central Texas, wastewater is polluting rivers and streams

2 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Dylan Baddour

With adequate investment, plenty of solutions exist. Some could even be configured to make money that covers part of their costs. For example, some treatment systems that remove nitrogen and phosphorus from water do it by growing algae, which could be harvested and sold as fertilizer. To avoid the buildup of nutrients where effluent is sprayed onto land, grasses can be harvested and sold as hay.
In booming Central Texas, wastewater is polluting rivers and streams

2 weeks ago | texastribune.org | Dylan Baddour

Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. TARPLEY — Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small ranch.
In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

2 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dylan Baddour

TARPLEY, Texas–Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small ranch. Denke, a 1981 graduate of Harvard Medical School who moved to the Hill Country in 2013, printed fliers, put them in Ziploc bags and tied them to her neighbors’ cattle gates in the tiny community of Tarpley, population 38.
National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced

3 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Dylan Baddour

America’s 34th annual National Parks Week will feature dramatically scaled back staffing and services at national parks and forests following weeks of slashing by the Trump Administration. Friday, the day before parks week begins, was the Trump administration’s deadline for federal employees to voluntarily resign in exchange for paid leave—an offer that was overturned and then reinstated by courts. Last week, a court also reinstated the administration’s order to fire all probationary employees.
National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced

3 weeks ago | ecotopical.com | Dylan Baddour

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Water scarcity, water security, climate change, Texas

1 month ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Dylan Baddour

WATER SECURITY“Water Is the New Oil: As Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifer Pipeline PlansPublished 1 April 2025Fast-growing Georgetown plans to pump 89 million gallons a day from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer but the project is being fought by Bryan, College Station and Texas A&M University, which depend on the same water.
“Water is the new oil” as Texas cities square off over aquifer pipeline plans

1 month ago | tdtnews.com | Dylan Baddour

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Cleaning Fracking's Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States – Deceleration

1 month ago | deceleration.news | Dylan Baddour

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options. But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require enormous amounts of energy, just as Texas fights to keep up with the rapidly growing power demands of a high-tech industrial buildout.