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Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas

February 5, 2025

Grist

Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

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U.S. Oil and Gas Jobs Plummet Despite Record Production

January 15, 2025

OilPrice.com

U.S. oil and gas companies are using automation and outsourcing to reduce their workforce, despite record production levels. The industry is not expected to see job growth, and wages are declining.

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

December 24, 2024

Inside Climate News

Five years after Diane Wilson’s landmark settlement with Formosa Plastics, money flows to “the bay and the fishermen.”

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Corpus Christi’s First Water-Desalination Plant Could Create “Dead Zones”

December 12, 2024

Texas Monthly

The large-scale facility for removing salt from seawater is set to be built where experts have warned it could do considerable damage to marine life in the city’s namesake bay.