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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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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

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Feb. 14. Trump was joined by (from left) EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Climate and Environmental Justice Programs Stalled by Trump Freeze, Despite Court Orders

By Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, Nicholas Kusnetz

A cargo ship passes the Cheniere Energy liquefied natural gas plant on Feb. 10 in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

New Pipeline Will Bring More Permian Gas to Texas Industrial Corridor

By Dylan Baddour

Sharon Wilson, of the non-profit Oilfield Witness, uses a gas imaging camera to capture otherwise invisible emissions from an Energy Transfer compressor station in Arlington, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘Drill Baby Drill’: Texas City Approves New Site for Fracking Near Daycare and Schools

By Dylan Baddour

A view of downtown Corpus Christi on the South Texas coast. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Launches Emergency Water Projects as Reservoirs Dwindle and Industrial Demand Grows

By Dylan Baddour

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

Diane Wilson stands outside her home in Seadrift, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline

By Dylan Baddour

A view of the Golden Pass LNG Terminal construction site on June 7, 2023 in Sabine Pass near the Gulf Coast. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Local Tax Breaks for LNG Plants Don’t Benefit Communities, Report Says

By Dylan Baddour

Misty Ortega lives adjacent to Uranium Energy Corporation's site for deep injection disposal of radioactive waste and has campaigned against the project in Goliad County. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Uranium Mining Revival Portends Nuclear Renaissance in Texas and Beyond

By Dylan Baddour

President Joe Biden announces a seven billion dollar "Solar For All" program with the Environmental Protection Agency on April 22 at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Va. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Aspiring Applicants Worry EPA Environmental Justice Grant Funding Will Be Rescinded Before It’s Awarded

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dennis Pillion, Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle

A view of Deer Park Stadium with refineries in the background in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team 

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

Cindy D. Taff, Chief Executive Officer of Sage Geosystems, explains how they use a well to store energy on March 22, 2023 in Starr County Santa Elena, Texas. The startup is testing storing energy in the ground. Credit: Gabriel Cárdenas/The Texas Tribune

How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries

By Dylan Baddour

Robert Shipp, 75, of Bastrop, sweats while receiving treatment from Austin-Travis County EMS first responders inside an ambulance during a 102 degree day in Del Valle, Texas, on July 7, 2023. According to the EMS crew, he passed out while searching for car parts under the hot sun. Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

A view of the Rio Grande LNG site in February 2024. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Approval of Massive LNG Export Plants in South Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune

Brandon Horton, a driver for Allied Eagle Transports, monitors the transfer of a load of salt water, a byproduct of fracking, to a disposal site south of Midland, Texas, on June 25. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune

An aerial view of the ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Houston. Credit: Mark Felix/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Three Facilities Contribute Half of Houston’s Chemical Air Pollution

By Dylan Baddour

CenterPoint foreign assistance crews work to restore power lines on Thursday in Houston after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power for millions of people in the city. Credit: Danielle Villasana/Getty Images

Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston

By Dylan Baddour

A tugboat tows a semi-submersible drilling platform into the Gulf of Mexico in Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Texas Opens More Coastal Waters for Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

By Dylan Baddour

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