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.
‘Drill Baby Drill’: Texas City Approves New Site for Fracking Near Daycare and Schools
By Dylan Baddour
Corpus Christi Launches Emergency Water Projects as Reservoirs Dwindle and Industrial Demand Grows
By Dylan Baddour
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
A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline
By Dylan Baddour
Local Tax Breaks for LNG Plants Don’t Benefit Communities, Report Says
By Dylan Baddour
Uranium Mining Revival Portends Nuclear Renaissance in Texas and Beyond
By Dylan Baddour
Aspiring Applicants Worry EPA Environmental Justice Grant Funding Will Be Rescinded Before It’s Awarded
By Kristoffer Tigue, Dennis Pillion, Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle
How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team
By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous
How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries
By Dylan Baddour
Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths
By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour
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
Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection
By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune
Three Facilities Contribute Half of Houston’s Chemical Air Pollution
By Dylan Baddour
Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston
By Dylan Baddour
Texas Opens More Coastal Waters for Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells
By Dylan Baddour
Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure
By Dylan Baddour