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Exxon delays planned plastics plant on Texas coast

The announcement comes six weeks after a judge struck down the local school district’s decision to give Exxon a tax break for the $10 billion plant in Calhoun County.

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Plans advance for $10 billion Exxon plastics plant on the Texas coast

Officials at a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Corpus Christi.

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A former shrimper tries to revive Matagorda Bay and its fishing industry with $50 million pollution settlement

Five years after Diane Wilson’s landmark settlement with Formosa Plastics, she’s directing the money toward reviving “the bay and the fishermen.”

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How a fisher took on Big Plastic and won

RFK Jr. once praised Diane Wilson for her environmental action. Here’s how to work with conservatives on climate

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Faith-based environmental groups take on fossil fuels as 'a sacred duty'

Over the summer, faith-based environmental groups took part in the Summer of Heat, a campaign that organized more than 40 protests at Citigroup investment bank’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan, condemning the bank’s financing of fossil fuel projects

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New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion

Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Texas' Lavaca Bay, but it and other industrial plants are waiting for water.

Texas Observer

New reservoir will fuel petrochemical expansion on Texas coast

Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Lavaca Bay instead. But it and other interested industrial plants are waiting for more water.

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Diane Wilson on Fighting Plastic Pollution, Losing Everything, and Gaining Her Soul

The longtime Gulf Coast activist just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work holding Formosa Plastics accountable.

Texas Observer

2023 Goldman environmental prize winners include Texas Gulf coast defender

Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste

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EPA: Racial disparity in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley'

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an increased risk of cancer from a nearby chemical plant — and that state officials have let air pollution remain high and downplayed its threat

The Independent UK

Louisiana judge tosses permits for $9.4B plastics complex

A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company's planned $9_4 billion plastics complex in a heavily industrialized area often referred to as “Cancer Alley.”

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