Dylan Baddour
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Covering Texas for Inside Climate News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born. Likes plants
Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants’ water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill
Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
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NEW: Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries. insideclimatenews.org/news/1307202...
Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say - Inside Climate News
A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries.
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Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say - Inside Climate News
A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries.
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Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say - Inside Climate News
A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries.
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Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill
Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
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“It's not fair to the retired family or the hardworking family... to support multi-billion dollar corporations and pay their water bills.” -Corpus Christi city manager www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill | Houston Public Media
Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
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NEW: Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries. insideclimatenews.org/news/1307202...
Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses Subsidized Industrial Water Bills for Years, Officials Say - Inside Climate News
A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries.
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The water crisis in Corpus Christi is a result of decades of the state's disregard for climate change. Prolonged droughts, combined w/ substantial water use by the oil, gas, & petrochemical industries, have exacerbated the problem. #EnvironmentalJustice insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi - Inside Climate News
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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“The water development board wouldn’t even mention it.” Last week: The Corpus Christi water crisis is a sign of Texas' planners persistent refusal to grapple with the reality of climate change.
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.
How a tiny Texas river agency plans to build the largest desalination plant in the country
Citgo, Flint Hills and Valero refineries stand in the background of Nueces Bay. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,
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Corpus Christi, Texas never considered climate change when making it’s water plan. They never planned for droughts to get any worse. Well, Corpus Christi nearly emptied it’s water resevoirs this year, literal decades before the plan assumed that would happen. insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi - Inside Climate News
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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“Whether it’s climate change or something else, our reservoir system is not as dependable as we once thought.”
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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Texas gonna Texas “Many staff at various state agencies understood the implications of climate change and the need to plan for it, Soward said. Instructions not to plan for climate change, he said, came from elected officials and political appointees.” www.kut.org/energy-envir...
Texas' refusal to plan for climate change created a crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region's reservoir system turned this year's drought conditions into an emergency.
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What ideology get ya.. Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi www.texasobserver.org/texas-climat...
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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"Political leaders in Texas have intentionally ignored this reality for decades, said Soward, who spent 35 years in state government. Acknowledging the risks of climate change would disrupt their economic agenda, Soward said, and interfere with the growth of business and industry."
San Antonio Current@sacurrent.bsky.social · last mo.Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
Texas’ refusal to plan for climate change created a crisis in Corpus Christi
As climate models predicted, every drought for the past 30 years in Corpus Christi has exceeded the parameters contemplated in local plans. This article
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Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi - Inside Climate News
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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From @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: A decade ago, Corpus Christi’s regional water plan projected shortages by 2050. The next plan, released 5 years later, shortened that timeline to 2030. The next plan, released this year, said shortages were imminent.
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
texasobserver.org
“Texas has one of the world’s most robust economies, but if sound, scientifically-based water management strategies are not implemented, it could face serious social, economic and environmental consequences.” @dylanbaddour.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi - Inside Climate News
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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New from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Every drought for the last 30 years in Corpus Christi has exceeded the parameters contemplated in local plans, thanks to fatal delusions, deep in the heart of Texas’ methodology ... Texas doesn’t plan for droughts to get worse.
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
texasobserver.org
NEW: Every drought for the last 30 years in Corpus Christi has exceeded the parameters contemplated in local plans, thanks to fatal delusions, deep in the heart of Texas’ methodology: Texas doesn’t plan for droughts to get worse. www.texasobserver.org/texas-climat...
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
texasobserver.org
“ Even before I was elected … I said, ‘I don't think this is a good idea,’” said the mayor of Kyle. “There's not enough solid information. ... To me, it almost seemed like a Ponzi scheme.” www.kut.org/energy-envir...
City of Kyle paid to reserve water 200 miles away. Critics wonder if they will ever see a drop
Kyle spent $250,000 to reserve water from a proposed desalination plant near Corpus Christi. Now officials must decide whether to invest another $250,000 and continue backing the project.
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Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant texasstandard.org/stories/corp...
How a tiny Texas river agency plans to build the largest desalination plant in the country
Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.
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"How a Tiny Texas River Agency Plans to Build the Largest Desalination Plant in the Country" @insideclimatenews.org via insideclimatenews.org/news/2206202... #water
How a Tiny Texas River Agency Plans to Build the Largest Desalination Plant in the Country - Inside Climate News
Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.
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How a Tiny Texas River Agency Plans to Build the Largest Desalination Plant in the Country insideclimatenews.org/news/2206202...
How a Tiny Texas River Agency Plans to Build the Largest Desalination Plant in the Country - Inside Climate News
Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.
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In this week's newsletter, we asked @dylanbaddour.bsky.social, our colleague at @insideclimatenews.org and a new-ish father, what he learned following three environmental leader mothers from Texas to Taiwan for his latest reporting project: newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/go-u...
‘Go Until Tired Then Go Past Tired’
Dear Reader, Hope you’ve had a great Juneteenth, Dragon Boat Festival, Father’s Day, and Summer Solstice! Last week, The Xylom and Inside Climate News co-...
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Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant. insideclimatenews.org/news/2206202...
How a Tiny Texas River Agency Plans to Build the Largest Desalination Plant in the Country - Inside Climate News
Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.
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“People!” she said as she stomped her foot. “Step out, be unreasonable. I always tell them, go ahead and make a fool of yourself, get it over with.” A great, sweeping story from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social
Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company - Inside Climate News
For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.
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