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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News

The “1-mile rule”: Texas’ unwritten, arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints

Max Midstream’s Seahawk Oil Terminal sits about four miles across Lavaca Bay from a jetty at Port Lavaca, Texas.
Max Midstream’s Seahawk Oil Terminal sits about 4 miles across Lavaca Bay from a jetty at Port Lavaca. (Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News)

PORT LAVACA — On a rugged stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas, environmental groups called foul in 2020 when an oil company sought pollution permits to expand its export terminal beside Lavaca Bay.

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