Taiwan’s Plastic Habit Collides With Shortages Caused by a Faraway War

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/taiwan-plastic-bag-shortage.html

Five years after Diane Wilson’s landmark settlement with Formosa Plastics, money flows to Matagorda Bay and its fishermen.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/01/07/509971/a-shrimpers-crusade-pays-big-dividends-on-a-remote-stretch-of-texas-coastline/

#EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #DianeWilson #FormosaPlastics #MatagordaBay #MatagordaBayFishingCooperative #Nurdles #PortLavaca

“Cancer Alley” is an 85-mile stretch of communities in #Louisiana packed with toxic petrochemical plants, pipelines, oil refineries, and other polluting projects. In some areas, the lifetime cancer risk for residents is 47x higher than what the EPA deems acceptable. Yet #FormosaPlastics is planning to build another plant that would span 2,400 acres.

President Biden has the power to shut it down, but we need YOUR HELP to make him act.

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