This report is part of a regular collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News.
Federal regulators have cleared a gas terminal on the Texas coast to restart commercial production of liquified natural gas for export, eight months after an explosion rocked the facility and nearby towns.
Subsequent investigations revealed a host of problems with Freeport LNG—which supercools fracked gas and loads it onto seafaring tankers—from overworked staff to overlooked engineering reports, which contributed to circumstances that led highly combustible methane to leak from a pipe and catch fire last June.
