The United Nations International Plastics Treaty: validating the struggles of fenceline communities in Louisiana
In mid-November, days earlier than this week’s remaining United Nations assembly to debate plastic air pollution, the Biden Administration declared that it not supported a cap on new plastic manufacturing, as a part of a world treaty to guard environmental…
Formosa Plastics returns to battle once more
For many years, Formosa Plastics Group, a Taiwanese conglomerate, has pushed to construct an enormous petrochemical complicated in southeast Louisiana. Within the Nineties, after fierce resident opposition, Formosa withdrew its bid to construct a plant in Wallace, a traditionally Black…