RISE St. James and its supporters are calling for a halt to Formosa Plastics’ construction in light of the company’s risk to community health from the repeated, ongoing failure to…
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Rise St. James and Formosa Plastics don’t agree about what’s going to happen in the future. The environmental justice group says air, water and soil quality are already awful in…
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Development Director, Louisiana Bucket Brigade The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is a 501(c)(3) environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. We…
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Outrage over last month’s sprawling Mississippi River nurdle spill in New Orleans and the lax government response to it has inspired a bill in Congress to prevent similar incidents. Sen. Tom Udall,…
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The above map illustrates the path that stormwater runoff, which would certainly carry toxins including ambient and incidental chemical waste and loose plastic pellets, called “nurdles,” which would be Formosa’s…
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At Grand Isle State Park, on a sandy beach popular with sunbathers and anglers, Jace Tunnell pointed to the tide line and its usual scattering of litter: milk jugs, water…
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Hello and thank you for letting me present. I made a presentation to the Council in January calling attention to Formosa Plastics’ false assertion that it had reconfigured its site…
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September 15, 2020 St. James Parish Council 5800 Hwy. 44 Convent, LA 70723 RISE St. James and Louisiana Bucket Brigade submit this response to a letter sent by Formosa Plastics…
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September 10th, 2020 Chief Butch Browning, State Fire Marshal Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal 8181 Independence Blvd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 Courtney Phillips, Secretary Louisiana Department of Health P.O….
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