Industry Threatens Water Supplies and Coastal Ecology Near Corpus Christi

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Environmentalists have seized on water supply as a “chokehold” to block fossil fuels on the rugged South Texas coast. CorpusChristiTX ClimateCrisis

This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. Five years ago, when ExxonMobil came calling, city officials eagerly signed over a large portion of their water supply so the oil giant could build a $10 billion plant to make plastics out of methane gas. A year later, they did the same for Steel Dynamics to build a rolled-steel factory.

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