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us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
By Julie Dermansky
on
Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans,ย cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophicย consequences. Meeting the UKโ€™s 2050 net-zero target requires a โ€œreset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
By Guest
on
Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be โ€˜Catastrophic.โ€™ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
By Dana Drugmand
on
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
By Justin Mikulka
on
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
us/Following Lawsuit, Formosa Agrees to Hold Major Construction on One of Largest Planned US Plastics Plants Until 2021
By Julie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on
Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
us/Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honorรฉ Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
By Julie Dermansky
on
Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
us/Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline 'Trampled' Rights of Louisiana Landowners
By Dana Drugmand
on
A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally โ€œtrampledโ€ on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landownersโ€™ permissio...
us/'The Cost of Plastics Is Lives': House Oversight Hearing Highlights Environmental Justice Burdens of Plastic Production
By Dana Drugmand
on
During a congressional hearing Tuesday,ย a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrainย from theย industry: โ€œPlastic savesย lives.โ€ However,ย for many communities of color living in close proxi...
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
By Sharon Kelly
on
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

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us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans,ย cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophicย consequences. Meeting the UKโ€™s 2050 net-zero target requires a โ€œreset...
us/The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America
ByGuest
on

Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
us/Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be โ€˜Catastrophic.โ€™ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases
ByDana Drugmand
on

More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
on

With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
us/Following Lawsuit, Formosa Agrees to Hold Major Construction on One of Largest Planned US Plastics Plants Until 2021
ByJulie Dermansky and Sharon Kelly
on

Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
us/Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honorรฉ Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
Series: Louisianaโ€™s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline 'Trampled' Rights of Louisiana Landowners
ByDana Drugmand
on

A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally โ€œtrampledโ€ on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landownersโ€™ permissio...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/'The Cost of Plastics Is Lives': House Oversight Hearing Highlights Environmental Justice Burdens of Plastic Production
ByDana Drugmand
on

During a congressional hearing Tuesday,ย a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrainย from theย industry: โ€œPlastic savesย lives.โ€ However,ย for many communities of color living in close proxi...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
In the Shadow of Shuttered Philadelphia Refinery, Neighbors Recall Those Lost to Decades of Pollution
BySharon Kelly
on

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
Hand painted posters and murals of sunflowers and skulls remembering community members lost to pollution line a chainlink fence outside the PES Refinery.

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