Space.com By Elizabeth Howell 5/29/2022
The Sierra Club and others have filed suit against Texas officials over Boca Chica closures during SpaceX Starship activities.A judge is expected to hear a lawsuit June 1 concerning access restrictions to a South Texas beach amid SpaceX activities for the Starship program .
The Sierra Club, the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas and non-profit Save RGV have joined together in a lawsuit against the Texas General Land Office, Texas land commissioner George P. Bush and Cameron County in Texas for closing Boca Chica Beach periodically for SpaceX operations during Starship tests, the Sierra Club stated May 5. The Boca Chica beach is near SpaceX's Starbase facility, where it is building Starship rocket prototypes and their massive Super Heavy boosters.
"Restricting access to a public beach, as the defendants have done, violates the Texas constitution," the Sierra Club said in a statement. None of the allegations have been proven in court, and the statement does not name SpaceX among the entities pursued in the lawsuit.
The disputed Boca Chica beach is just down the road a bit from SpaceX's Starbase facility where it develops, builds and tests its next-generation Starship vehicle and does other company work. Starbase is currently under a Federal Aviation Administration environmental review ahead of the company's plans to launch it and a Super Heavy rocket on its debut orbital journey.
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