Formosa Plastics failed to comply with stipulation provisions to protect identified and potential burial sites on its property. A professional drone operator and volunteer pilots were engaged by the community…
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It’s been almost a year since the inspector general for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged agency officials to take “prompt action” to warn people living near 25 “high-priority” industrial…
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Climate change, fracking, air and water pollution, toxic landfills, the disproportionate burden of pollution on communities of color. There is no paucity of targets for improving our environment, just as…
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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…
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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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Conservationists demanded an injunction Tuesday to block construction of a Taiwanese plastics plant in an already-polluted stretch of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley.
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In 2012, Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential nominee, made headlines by proclaiming “Corporations are people.” Most Americans found that idea preposterous. After all, our Constitution never mentions “corporate people.” And…
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From Southeast Asia to the United States, activists have called attention in recent years to the harmful impact of chemical companies such as Formosa Plastics Corporation, a Taiwanese petrochemical company…
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Activists in St. James Parish have been fighting the development of a giant plastic manufacturing plant there for years. They have filed lawsuits, protested at the state capitol, and committed…
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