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Diane Wilson: Gulf Coast activist on Goldman Environmental Prize
The longtime Gulf Coast activist just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work holding Formosa Plastics accountable.
New air monitors among major impacts of ProPublica toxic air pollution reporting
Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
In ‘Cancer Alley,’ Judge blocks huge petrochemical plant
Louisiana activists battling to block an enormous plastics plant in a corridor so dense with industrial refineries it is known as Cancer Alley won a legal victory this week.
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Louisiana judge vacates state air permits for $9.4B plastics complex in chemical corridor
A Louisiana district court judge on Wednesday vacated state air permits granted to a Taiwan-based company looking to construct a $9.4 billion plastics complex in St. James Parish, further stalling a controversial project that has faced backlash from some residents and environmental advocates.
www.vox.com
Pollution in Black communities should make environmental justice a racial justice issue for Biden administration
Industrial pollution has sickened and poisoned Black communities for decades. Environmental justice experts have a solution to stop this.
www.fairwarning.org
Tenacious citizens take on the plastics industry over an insidious pollutant
Homegrown activists, tired of lax government enforcement and ineffectual industry self-policing, have stepped up to fight plastic pollution.
St. James Parish takes on Big Plastic
In Cancer Alley, residents are fighting a new plastics factory, arguing its placement "reflects a racist society."
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