Attorneys General from New York, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey sent a letter on Monday to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers outlining their reasoning for a more comprehensive analysis of Formosa Plastics. Their comments outlined a scathing review of the New Orleans District Army Corps of EngineersÂ’ incompetence in properly […]
St. James Parish is fed up with its council. Residents have spent years telling the council that the Formosa Plastics development will only bring sickness and death to St. James, doubling the ParishÂ’s toxic air emissions. TheyÂ’ve revealed to the council lie after lie that Formosa Plastics told to duplicitously gain land-use approval. And now […]
In 2019, Formosa Plastics received land-use approval from the St. James Parish Council. During the process of getting that approval, the company lacked transparency, withholding information about the burial sites on the property and giving incorrect information to councilmembers regarding the site plan. Although this was exposed to the St. James Parish council by RISE […]
The Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit watchdog focused on environmental regulation, released a report naming 5 oil refineries in Louisiana as above “action level” for benzene, a Group A carcinogen. The report, titled “Environmental Justice and Refinery Pollution: Benzene Monitoring Around Oil Refineries Showed More Communities at Risk in 2020” explored the relationship between cancer-causing […]
Everyone knows that Metro Disposal is trash. This was made clear last year when they fired all of their employees who went on strike to protest the companyÂ’s low pay and unsafe working conditions, replacing them with incarcerated workers. The incarcerated workers, who they dubbed “transitional labor” were paid $1.33 an hour, were subjected to […]
The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to pass Resolution 92, a bill introduced by City Councilmembers Kristin Palmer and Cyndi Nguyen that would oppose the proposed Formosa Plastics mega plant in St. James Parish and further petrochemical buildout in Cancer Alley. The introduction of the bill was deferred from last week after […]
On April 8, the New Orleans City Council will consider Resolution 92 by Councilwomen Kristin Palmer and Cyndi Nguyen which opposes the construction of Formosa Plastics along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish. Of course, the complex is not being built in New Orleans, itÂ’s being constructed in St. James, so why should the […]
Is it an art piece? Is it a political statement? Is its existence purely practical? One thing is for sure- King Cone aka Mega Cone has set New Orleans social media abuzz, in the past week. WhatÂ’s King Cone? An 8-foot-tall, bright orange and white, homemade traffic cone that materialized at the corner of Washington […]
In a March 23rd article, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said that FormosaÂ’s new plastic plant being built in “Cancer Alley” in St. James Parish, would not be financially sustainable, writing, “IEEFA finds that the project will begin operations at a time of market oversupply, lower petrochemical prices, strong competition for market […]
On Monday night, activist from the Stop Formosa Plastics Coalition projected slogans including, “#BreakFreeFromPlastic,” “No Community Is Disposable,” “Libérate del Plástico,” “Environmental Justice = No New Plastic” and a skull and crossbones onto the Superdome. They join activist groups in cities across the U.S. including Washington D.C., San Francisco, Houston, Portland, and Pittsburgh who projected […]
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