On Monday, May 10th, youth activists from the New Orleans and Houston Sunrise Movement, a national, youth-led climate justice movement dedicated to fighting the climate crisis and creating millions of good jobs, set off on their "Generation On Fire: Project 400," a 400-mile trek from New Orleans to Houston. The trek represents the displacement from […]
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 Parish's toxic air emissions. They'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 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, it's being constructed in St. James, so why should the […]
In a March 23rd article, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said that Formosa'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 […]
In response to a series of letters from the Loyola Law School Human Rights Advocacy Project and members of the Stop Formosa Plastics Coalition including RISE St. James, CIEL, and Healthy Gulf, UN experts on Contemporary Forms of Racism condemned the environmental racism in Cancer Alley, declaring that it "must end." The experts specifically cited the […]
Activists in New Orleans, St. James, and San Francisco coordinated banner drops Tuesday calling upon President Joe Biden and the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the federal permit for the proposed $9.4B Formosa Plastics megaplant in St. James Parish. This comes months after the Army Corps temporarily suspended the project's permit and President Biden […]
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