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 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
Texas Droughts Are Getting Much More Expensive
By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune
Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta: a Native Elder Fights Fossil Fuel Companies in Texas
Story and photos by Dylan Baddour
Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater
By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour
Water Scarcity and Clean Energy Collide in South Texas
By Dylan Baddour
Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations
By Dylan Baddour
New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion on Texas Coast
By Dylan Baddour
Companies in Texas Exploit ‘Loopholes,’ Attribute 1 Million Pounds of Air Pollution to Recent Freezing Weather
By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune
Another Hot, Dry Summer May Push Parts of Texas to the Brink
By Dylan Baddour
‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It
By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News; and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune