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]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]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…
[Read Article]Conservationists demanded an injunction Tuesday to block construction of a Taiwanese plastics plant in an already-polluted stretch of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley.
[Read Article]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…
[Read Article]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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