Looking to the Future: Fossil Fuels in the Rio Grande Valley

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Editor's note: This series was supported by the Ida B. Wells Society and Pulitzer Center Investigative Journalism Fellowship. (Read in English here.) For the Gulf Coast oil and gas industry, the 50-mile-long mini-region around the Laguna Madre is the final frontier. The Laguna Madre, an unusual hypersaline lagoon that separates the Padre Islands from the depths of South Texas, is bordered at its southern end by the small coastal communities of P…