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  1. Forgotten Keepers of the #RioGrandeDelta

    An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.

    by Dylan Baddour
    May 13, 2024

    "This society has been trying to get rid of #Mancias’ people for 500 years. It couldn’t kill them all, so it’s destroying the evidence that they ever existed. That’s what Mancias sees as 100-ton bulldozers flatten the hills his #ancestors camped on, churn up their bones, and casually crush them into rubble, removing these last traces of their world.

    " 'They almost annihilated us, and that #genocide continues,' Mancias said. 'To destroy the #environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.'

    "He faces a formidable foe here at the last frontier for oil and gas on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Every other major inlet from the Mississippi River west through Port Arthur, Houston, Freeport, Lavaca Bay, and Corpus Christi is already ringed with #refineries, #ChemicalPlants, and terminals.

    "But at the farthest tip of #Texas, the #RioGrande meets the Gulf between #WildlifeRefuges, a #StatePark, and a majestic #wilderness that still shelters endangered and little-known #wildlife.

    "This is where Houston-based developer #NextDecade has begun constructing an $18 billion #MegaProject, which it called the 'largest greenfield energy project [financed] in U.S. history' when it announced in 2023 that it had secured investors to proceed.

    "Named #RioGrandeLNG, the 750-acre facility will eventually pipe in up to 27 million tons per year of gas from #fracked wells in the #PermianBasin, supercool it to negative 260 degrees fahrenheit, and load it onto #TankerShips for sale overseas as liquefied natural gas (#LNG). It’s part of an explosion of lookalike projects that quickly made the United States the world’s top exporter of liquefied gas and drove soaring gas production at home.

    "On an adjacent tract, another project called Texas LNG intends to build atop a site called #GarciaPasture—an ancient village ground where people lived seasonally for almost 800 years. The World Monument Fund calls it 'one of America’s premier #archaeological sites.' That project has its permits and awaits investor commitments before breaking ground.

    "And about 5 miles away, #SpaceX continues to expand its #Starbase complex, where it manufactures and launches the most powerful #rockets in the world (which occasionally explode and fall to earth).

    "Mancias fears this is just the beginning.

    " 'All of this will be gone,' he said, driving his pickup truck down a highway through the marshes. 'They’re going to destroy all of this.' "

    Read more:
    texasobserver.org/forgotten-ke

    #DefendingTheSacred #SacredSites
    #TexasObserver #InsideClimateNews #BigOilAndGas #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism #ElonSucks #MegaProjects #Pollution #Fracking #SpaceIndustry #DefendTheSacred #EndangeredSpecies

  2. Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

    A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

    By Ellyn Lapointe
    Published March 20, 2026

    "#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

    "Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

    Read more:
    gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplayi

    #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
    #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
    #GlobalWarming

  3. Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

    A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

    By Ellyn Lapointe
    Published March 20, 2026

    "#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

    "Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

    Read more:
    gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplayi

    #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
    #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
    #GlobalWarming

  4. Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

    A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

    By Ellyn Lapointe
    Published March 20, 2026

    "#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

    "Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

    Read more:
    gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplayi

    #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
    #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
    #GlobalWarming

  5. Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

    A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

    By Ellyn Lapointe
    Published March 20, 2026

    "#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

    "Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

    Read more:
    gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplayi

    #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
    #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
    #GlobalWarming

  6. Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

    A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

    By Ellyn Lapointe
    Published March 20, 2026

    "#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

    "Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

    Read more:
    gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplayi

    #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
    #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
    #GlobalWarming

  7. Hype for the Future 138J: City of Stanton, Texas

    Overview The City of Stanton is a city in and the county seat of Martin County, Texas, located in the eastern Permian Basin area and within the region known as West Texas. Today, the community is situated primarily along the Interstate 20 corridor to the east of the City of Midland, with State Highway 137 serving the perpendicular direction.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  8. MethaneSAT Releases First Global Assessment of Oil and Gas Climate Pollution

    MethaneSAT, the world’s most advanced methane-detecting satellite and first spacecraft owned by an environmental nonprofit, promised to usher…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #EDF #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #methane #methaneemissions #MethaneSAT #PermianBasin #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/454773/

  9. MethaneSAT Releases First Global Assessment of Oil and Gas Climate Pollution

    MethaneSAT, the world’s most advanced methane-detecting satellite and first spacecraft owned by an environmental nonprofit, promised to usher…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #EDF #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #methane #methaneemissions #MethaneSAT #PermianBasin #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/454773/