Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.
[Read Article]The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also called FERC, is involved in deciding where LNG facilities and pipelines will be located. FERC usually meets in Washington, D.C., but representatives came to…
[Read Article]Billions in tax incentives from the Industrial Tax Exemption Program have failed to produce job and income growth in Louisiana, according a new report from independent research firm Ohio River…
[Read Article]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…
[Read Article]A Louisiana appeals court on Thursday ordered the company that built the Bayou Bridge Pipeline to pay a group of landowners $30,000 plus legal fees for building the pipeline on…
[Read Article]Rise St. James, a faith-based environmental justice group in St. James Parish took its fight against Formosa Plastics to Washington Tuesday by asking a federal judge in the District of…
[Read Article]Groups fighting a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed for St. James Parish asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to halt the project temporarily pending a review…
[Read Article]A coalition of four environmental groups on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to immediately halt construction on a major petrochemical complex in eastern Louisiana, arguing that the…
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