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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Marina Dunbar

Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach

A half dozen people sit in camp chairs on a beach next to a minivan, with a rocket rising from the grasses behind them.
Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, Texas, near the Starship Flight 3 rocket a day before its scheduled launch at the Starbase facility, on 13 March 2024. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A Texas beach can be closed during rocket launches by Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the state’s supreme court ruled unanimously against a bid by environmental organizations to sue over preserving public access.

The court’s decision that the organizations did not have legal standing upheld a trial court’s dismissal of the lawsuit with prejudice, preventing the groups from filing the case again with revisions.

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