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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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Blake Muir and his niece, Jennifer Sullivan, stand near a tank battery on his land in Gonzales County. Data shows it could come under nearly 15 feet of water in a 500-year flood. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain

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In Deer Park, Texas, flaring at plants near the Houston Ship Channel in below freezing temperatures on Monday, Jan. 26. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Facilities in Texas Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds of Regulated Pollutants During Last Week’s Icy Weather

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

Natural gas power plants at the WA Parish Generating Station in Richmond, Texas. More like this are on the way as Texas becomes the epicenter of America's gas buildout. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Developer Calls GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas, the ‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S.

By Dylan Baddour

President Donald J. Trump wants private security contractors to protect U.S. oil companies as they go back into Venezuela to modernize aging oil infrastructure, like this refinery, El Palito in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state, Venezuela. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence

By Dylan Baddour

China's Vice-Premier He Lifeng delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Credit: Fabrice Coffrin/AFP via Getty Images

Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat

By Dylan Baddour

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

White whooping cranes in Aransas County, Texas, in January 2025. Credit: Pu Ying Huang / Texas Tribune

The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space

By Dylan Baddour

Diane Wilson outside the Formosa Plastics plant in Point Comfort, Texas, in November 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP ia Getty Images

Diane Wilson Takes on Another Plastics Plant in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

In 2021, Dr. Robert Bullard, from right, talks with Fifth Ward residents Water Mallett, Doris Brown, then-EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner during Regan's tour of Houston to highlight environmental justice concerns. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour

Zuly Rivera, a water defender and youth coordinator for the Nasa pueblo, stands at the Caliyacu River in Mocoa, Colombia.

Global Rush for Copper Hits the Amazon

Story by Dylan Baddour, photos by Tom Laffay

An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine operating within the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument on Aug. 27, 2024, in Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Trump Names More Priority Minerals for U.S. Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company’s laboratory on Oct. 7. Credit: Sergio Flores/The Texas Tribune

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

A view of Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort complex, near the site of Exxon’s planned plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, speaks during a press conference following a meeting between President Trump and Congressional Democratic leaders on Monday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images

Government Shutdown Threatens Further Destruction of Environment and Science Agencies, Advocates Warn

By Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle

Cheryl Johnson’s Chicago nonprofit, People for Community Recovery, was part of a coalition that received a $2.8 million grant funded through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump administration canceled it this year after just $32,000 were disbursed. Credit: Zubaer Khan/Chicago Sun-Times

New Map Shows $29 Billion in Climate and Environment Grants Canceled or Frozen by Trump

By Dylan Baddour

Along Texas' Gulf coast, the oil and gas infrastructure in Corpus Christi. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

By Dylan Baddour

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