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Dylan Baddour

Dylan Baddour

Reporter, Austin

Dylan Baddour covers the energy sector and environmental justice in Texas. Born in Houston, he’s worked the business desk at the Houston Chronicle, covered the U.S.-Mexico border for international outlets and reported for several years from Colombia for media like The Washington Post, BBC News and The Atlantic. He also spent two years investigating armed groups in Latin America for the global security department at Facebook before returning to Texas journalism. Baddour holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Latin American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has lived in Argentina, Kazakhstan and Colombia and speaks fluent Spanish.

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John Beard Jr., the founder and executive director of the Port Arthur Community Action Network, stands in front of the ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy’s Golden Pass LNG facility, just south of Port Arthur, Texas. Beard is a retired refinery worker who first challenged the Port Arthur LNG emissions permit. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Texas Violated the Law with Lax Emissions Limits, Federal Court Rules

By Dylan Baddour

Oil refineries near the Houston Ship Channel. Credit: Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Quietly Moves to Formalize Acceptable Cancer Risk From Industrial Air Pollution. Public Health Officials Say it’s not Strict Enough.

By Dylan Baddour

City of Odessa Water Distribution employees work through the night as they attempt to repair a broken water main Tuesday, June 14, 2022 in Odessa. According to Mayor of Odessa Javier Joven, repairs were completed around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday. Credit: Courtesy Odessa American/Eli Hartman.

Summer of Record Heat Deals Costly Damage to Texas Water Systems

By Dylan Baddour

A view of the San Miguel Electric Cooperative power plant, with coal ash in the foreground. April 26, 2019. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Texas Permits Lignite Mine Expansion Despite Water Worries

By Dylan Baddour

The water in Jacob's Well is at its lowest level in memory, in August 2023. Usually, it gushes into the bed of Cypress Creek, which is currently dry. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News.

Dry Springs in Central Texas Warn of Water Shortage Ahead

By Dylan Baddour

A Citgo refinery fumes behind a home in Hillcrest, Corpus Christi. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

By Dylan Baddour

The Boca Chica Wildlife Refuge on the Rio Grande delta, about six miles east of the proposed 750-acre site of the Rio Grande LNG facility. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Developer Confirms Funding For Massive Rio Grande Gas Terminal

By Dylan Baddour

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on Feb. 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave

By Dylan Baddour

A person rests in the shade on a playground set in the Hungry Hill neighborhood on June 20, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Extreme temperatures across the state have prompted the National Weather Service to issue excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that affect more than 40 million people. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave

By Dylan Baddour

The canal expansion project will enable the world’s largest oil tankers to dock at Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal, pictured on June 7, 2023, across Lavaca Bay from a jetty in Port Lavaca. Credit: Dylan Baddour / Inside Climate News

Determined to Forge Ahead With Canal Expansion, Army Corps Unveils Testing Plan for Contaminants in Matagorda Bay in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

A new fracking rig operates behind a house Feb. 10, 2016 in an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma neighborhood. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

What Is Produced Water?

By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour

An overhead view of an explosion at a Shell USA Inc. facility on May 5, 2023 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire

By Dylan Baddour

EPA region six administrator Earthea Nance (left) and Liveable Arlington founder Ranjana Bhandari overlook and discuss a drilling site from a motel balcony in Arlington. Credit: Dylan Baddour

EPA Officials Visit Texas’ Barnett Shale, Ground Zero of the Fracking Boom

By Dylan Baddour

David Shifflett, a farmer in Reeves County, parses records of his protests to the Texas Railroad Commission against permits for nearby wastewater injection wells.

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune  

Trucks line up on a residential street one block from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The residual waste was transported from Ohio to Texas. Credit: Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar

By Dylan Baddour

Storage tanks stand in the evening sun at an LNG terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

After Explosion, Freeport LNG Rejoins the Gulf Coast Energy Export Boom

By Dylan Baddour, Delger Erdenesanaa

Texas Regulators Won’t Stop an Oilfield Waste Dump Site Next to Wetlands, Streams and Wells

By Dylan Baddour

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