Texas Supreme Court denies request to save beach from SpaceX [View all]

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Source: The Independent

Saturday 20 June 2026 21:06 EDT


Elon Musk’s SpaceX can keep closing a Texas beach to launch rockets from the company’s nearby Starbase, according to the state’s Supreme Court.

The state’s highest court rejected claims brought by environmental groups that barring public access to Boca Chica Beach violated the state’s constitution.

Friday’s unanimous, 24-page opinion overruled an appeals court that had sided with environmental groups and reinstated a trial judge’s decision to throw out their lawsuit.

Writing for the court, Justice Rebecca Huddle cited the Lone Star State’s 1959 Open Beaches Act, which voters enshrined in in the state’s constitution in 2009. The measure protected the public’s right to beach access, “but it did not expand or confer on private citizens a right of enforcement or otherwise alter the preexisting enforcement scheme, which resided with governmental actors alone,” she wrote.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/spacex-texas-beach-supreme-court-ruling-b2999782.html

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462904/24-0237-0407-0457.pdf