South Texas organizations sue SpaceX over environmental damage — again

Environmental groups last week filed a legal complaint in federal court alleging that U.S. regulators failed to scrutinize the environmental impact of Space X’s failed South Texas rocket launches earlier this year. The Center for Biological Diversity, American Bird Conservancy, the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas and others allege in a supplemental petition that the Federal Aviation Administration and others failed to analyze the environmental damage caused by SpaceX’s disastrous launch in April ahead of the company's Nov. 18 followup launch. The petition was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.