Plans Advance for Huge New Exxon Plastics Plant in Texas

Inside Climate News · By Dylan Baddour · last updated May 1, 2025 – 1:03 AM

Officials at a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast.

By Dylan Baddour

Plans for a large new plastics plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas crept forward on Tuesday evening when officials at a small, rural school district moved to enter into tax break negotiations with ExxonMobil, the project developer.

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