"All Hell Breaks Loose": How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

In this 3-part series, The Xylom examines the impact of fossil fuel expansion on Ingleside on the Bay.

In Part 1, export terminals that captured half of the U.S. crude oil export industry turn the Texas Coastal Bend town into an unlikely fenceline community. In Part 2, a playing field is tilted towards regional officials, Texas Republicans, and foreign energy companies, doing residents in. In Part 3, a rainbow coalition of Texas Coastal Bend residents try every tool in the regulatory process to stop the crude oil export industry. Did they ever have agency?

Read the full 3-part series by The Xylom reporter Alex Ip.