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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.

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

By Dylan Baddour

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Pipes with flow directions for operation with hydrogen can be seen on an engine for gas and hydrogen operation at Hansewerk's cogeneration plant in Hamburg-Othmarschen. Credit: Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images

Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water

By Dylan Baddour

The Formosa Plastics plant sits near Matagorda Bay in Point Comfort, Texas on Nov. 3, 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws Approval of Plans to Dredge a Superfund Site on the Texas Gulf Coast for Oil Tanker Traffic

By Autumn Jones, Dylan Baddour

A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Dr. Robert Bullard speaks at a roundtable event with EPA Administrator Michael Regan at Texas Southern University on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Photo Courtesy of The Texas Tribune

Q&A: Robert Bullard Led a ‘Huge’ Delegation from Texas to COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt

By Dylan Baddour

A crude tanker docks at the Flint Hills Resources onshore export terminal in Corpus Christi. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Biden Administration Quietly Approves Huge Oil Export Project Despite Climate Rhetoric

By Dylan Baddour

A tanker loads crude at a new onshore terminal operated by Enbridge outside Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour / Inside Climate News

Texas Activists Sit-In at DOT in Washington Over Offshore Oil Export Plans

By Dylan Baddour

An LNG tanker makes its way into Cameron Pass near the site of Venture Global LNGs facility at Cameron Pass, near Cameron, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Protesters Rally at Gas Summit in Louisiana, Where Industry Eyes a Fossil Fuel Buildout

By Dylan Baddour

Elida Castillo outside Exxon’s new plastics plant, eight miles from her family home in San Patricio County. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi Sold Its Water to Exxon, Gambling on Desalination. So Far, It’s Losing the Bet

By Dylan Baddour

For the Third Time, Black Residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood File a Civil Rights Complaint to Fend Off Polluting Infrastructure

By Dylan Baddour

Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe, at the Eli Jackson Cemetery in San Juan, Texas on Feb. 11, 2019. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour

A 150-foot derrick is positioned over a natural gas well site along a jogging and bicycle trail system near a Trinity River embankment on December 19, 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxic Substances Into Streams, Rivers and Lakes

By Dylan Baddour

Hazy smog blankets Houston, Texas, June 26, 2000 during a hot summer day. Credit: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers

Nueva página web muestra donde se propone contaminar en Houston

By Dylan Baddour

Hazy smog blankets Houston, Texas, June 26, 2000 during a hot summer day. Credit: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers

A New Website Aims to Penetrate the Fog of Pollution Permitting in Houston

By Dylan Baddour

Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande

By Dylan Baddour

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery in Baytown, TX. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Judge Upholds $14 Million Fine in Long-running Citizen Suit Against Exxon in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

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