SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches in Texas have polluted an area across the border with debris, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.
The president will meet with her cabinet soon on the “security and environmental impacts” of the rocket launches, the president said at her daily media briefing. The government is “reviewing what laws have been violated” and based on that review will “file the necessary lawsuits,” she said.
“There is indeed contamination,” she said.
SpaceX’s Texas launchpad, know as Starbase, has long drawn criticism from neighbors for its potential effect on local wildlife. Earlier this month, rocket debris was found in the state of Tamaulipas by a local environment group that protects sea turtles, La Jornada reported.
SpaceX, controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Photo: The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. Photographer: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images
Following the publication of that white paper, the Big “I” offered a three-hour webinar in 2007 attended by about 3,000 industry professionals over several broadcasts. This article shares the title of that original webinar. The webinar was updated and presented again in 2010 and 2013. In the years following that, it seemed that the entire issue, for the most part, had settled down. The last seminar or webinar in which I discussed COI issues was 2017.
I believe the last time I addressed a certificate of insurance issue in this Insurance Journal column was at least four years ago. However, increasingly in the past year or so, I’ve received quite a few inquiries about COIs, with many of the questions being identical to those from 20-plus years ago. Perhaps this is due to a new generation of industry personnel, as well as a new generation of contractors, lenders, etc.?
