By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News Originally Appeared in the Texas Tribune  Since 2007, Hillcrest residents have sued to challenge plans for a sewage treatment plant in their neighborhood, and then bridge construction. The Hillcrest neighborhood in Corpus Christi started out as an upscale all-white community in the heart of the city. But after oil was discovered nearby in 1930, a growing refinery sector on Hillcrest’s edge drove many residents to seek homes elsewhere. So, in 1944, Corpus Christi recommended Hillcrest be opened to Black people. In the following decades, refinery flares and smokestacks cropped up around the neighborhood. An

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