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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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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

Tourists explore the Ritacuba Blanco glacier at El Cocuy National Natural Park in Boyaca province, Colombia, on April 19, 2024. Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise

By Dylan Baddour

Patrick Hanks, chief technology officer of Graphitic Energy, talks about the carbon formation vessel on the company’s San Antonio pilot project, which pulls solid carbon graphite out of methane gas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

By Dylan Baddour

In Kerrville, Texas, the sun sets over the Guadalupe River on July 6. Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas, leaving more than 120 people reported dead. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images.

Despite Catastrophic Flooding, Drought Persists in Parts of Central Texas

By Dylan Baddour

The FEMA task force staffers are in a small inflatable boat, viewed through a window

Phase-Out of FEMA On Course, Trump Says, Raising Worries About a Weakened National Disaster Response 

By Dylan Baddour

The Hays Energy Project, a 990 MW gas-fired power plant near San Marcos, is seen on May 27. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Sisters Abigail and Jennifer Lindsey stand on their rural property on May 27 outside New Braunfels, Texas, where they posted a sign in opposition to a large data center and power plant planned across the street. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Data Centers Are Building Their Own Gas Power Plants in Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Arcelia Martin

Diane Wilson pictured by her skiff outside her Calhoun County home in December 2024. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Veteran Environmentalist Sues Rural School Board Over Exxon Tax Break Decision

By Dylan Baddour

Diane Wilson holds a bottle with PVC plastic powder, a type of microplastic, collected in the Matagorda Bay system in December 2024. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Microplastics from Texas Bays Are Washed Out to Sea, New Study Says

By Dylan Baddour

The plastics plant in Gregory, Texas, operated by ExxonMobil and the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation started operations in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Plans Advance for Huge New Exxon Plastics Plant in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Margo Denke, co-founder of the group Friends of Hondo Canyon, surveys a stretch of Commissioners Creek on her ranch in Bandera County, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

By Dylan Baddour

A ranger hikes a trail at Joshua Tree National Park in California. Credit: National Park Service

National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced

By Dylan Baddour

The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers

By Dylan Baddour

Evaporation ponds hold produced water amid the oil wells of the Permian Basin. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Require More Energy Than Most US States

By Dylan Baddour

A view of a wind farm in Nolan, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Some Republicans Defend Clean Energy Tax Credits from Trump Administration Cuts

By Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle

A view of the Waste Control Specialists radioactive and hazardous waste storage site in Andrews, Texas. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court Takes Up Nuclear Waste in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Rusty Towell, the founding director of Abilene Christian University's Nuclear Energy Experimental Testing, describes the workings of a molten salt testing device installed in the NEXT lab at Abilene Christian University. Credit: Ronald W. Erdrich/Abilene Reporter-News

Texas Wants to Be a Nuclear Power

By Dylan Baddour

An aerial view of a petroleum tanker ship en route to the Port of Corpus Christi in Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Feds Approve Another Deepwater Oil Export Terminal Off Texas

By Dylan Baddour

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