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]Prominent African American authors, scholars and civil rights leaders sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday evening asking him to use his authority to stop one…
[Read More]The petrochemical industry has taken advantage of not one but two crises in our country – COVID-19 and the suppression and murder of black Americans – to pass a bill…
[Read More]St. James residents today re-asserted their rights to visit burial grounds on property owned by Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese company that plans to use the property to build one of…
[Read More]Read a letter from Janile Parks of FG to Sharon LaVigne of Rise St. James seeking access to a burial site at Buena Vista. Read a letter from Pamela C….
[Read More]Environmental activists and several members of Congress are warning that temporary easing of federal and state environmental regulations in response to coronavirus-related staffing problems at petrochemical plants could result in…
[Read Article]Work on a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed for St. James Parish has been put on hold until mid April to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and…
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