SpaceX's Starship Rocket Ends in Explosion After Launch

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44. The greatest environmental disaster

I live in the Rio Grande Valley and am an environmental activist fighting Space X, the border wall, and LNG development. Boa Chica beach was one of the most pristine beaches remaining in the state / country, until space x moved in. Hailed by local government leaders as great growth opportunity, Musk has been given carte blanche to do whatever he wants. He has evaded regulatory mandates and had avoided most or all of the 75 mitigation requirements listed in the EA. The FAA has totally failed us. So has USFWS. This is an area where there exists federally protected lands...the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. It also contains protected National and State park land where some of the last civil war battles were fought. Last but not least, the area is home many endangered animals, reptiles, and plant species. It is where the Rio Grande River meets the Gulf of Mexico. This is a critically sensitive area and not a single governmental entirety, from the small local entity all the way to the top federal entity, gives a shit about the abject destruction happening, not just with the launch, but with daily space x operations. Today, my heart is broken. . I mourn for the dead and deaf animals who could not withstand the much greater volume of the launch than what was anticipated in the EA. Those now deaf birds, animals, reptiles are soon to be dead, too.