The American Petroleum Institute’s list of requests to the incoming Trump administration would remove many of the available federal tools to rein in deadly global warming.
[Read Article]Formosa Plastics insists it will respect, protect site where it’s proposed a $9 billion complex.
[Read Article]New research from an environmental advocacy group seeking to identify some of those buried at the site of a proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish…
[Read Article]Formosa Plastics omitted key facts to win approval from the St. James Parish Council. These crucial facts were exposed only after Formosa Plastics received approval from the Council in 2019….
[Read More]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans today to suspend its permit for Formosa Plastics’ proposed plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana. The move comes just before a Nov….
[Read More]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…
[Read More]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…
[Read More]Opponents of Formosa Plastics’ massive proposed petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana filed for a preliminary injunction today to block construction of the project. The proposed facility would be…
[Read More]In response to recent efforts to criminalize Louisiana families’ First Amendment rights, a new alliance launched today to defend democracy. “We have fought hard for our constitutional rights and we…
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