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2023
Shrimp boat captain from Texas wins international Goldman Environmental Prize – NPR Apr 2023
Local environmentalist’s longtime advocacy strikes cord with community – Victoria Advocate Apr 2023
Vinyl chloride’s invisible threat: Thousands of pounds are released every year in the U.S. as part of “poison plastic” manufacturing – CBS News Feb 2023
An easy legislative fix for plastic pollution: Spell it out for TCEQ – Caller Times Feb 2023
2022
Diane Wilson vs Formosa – Pop History Dig Nov 2022
New Security Beat: Fighting the Flood of Nurdles: Texas Fisherwoman takes on Taiwan Plastic Company – Sept 2022 – Ruoyi Pan
How a dramatic win in plastic waste case may curb ocean pollution – National Geographic Feb 2022
Judge Tosses Air Permits For $9.4 Billion Louisiana Plastics Plant – Inside Climate News Sept 2022
2021
Formosa faces $2.2M in new penalties for Texas pellet pollution Plastics News, Dec 2021
Calls to address plastic pellet pollution grow at state, federal level – Victoria Advocate Nov 2021
Lunch Talk on the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper v. Formosa Plastics Case – Harvard Law School Event – Nov 2021
Formosa begins monitoring its plastic pollution under consent decree Victoria Advocate Nov 2021
Global studies that include Formosa’s discharged pellets show health threat IPEN 2021
2020
Laura Sullivan, Big Oil Evaded Regulation And Plastic Pellets Kept Spilling, NPR Dec. 2020
Karen, Hansen and Bina Reddy, Citizen Suits Lead the Way for Agencies on Plastics Enforcement, Bloomberg Law Oct. 16, 2020
Meet ‘the crazy lady’ who battled a marauding corporate polluter–and won Hightower Lowdown, June 2020.
COVID-19 cases associated with Formosa climbs to more than 20 Victoria Advocate, May 8, 2020
Formosa suspends glycols plant construction in Texas S&P Global Platts, April 28, 2020
Two Women, One Goal: Stopping Formosa Plastics Medium Delia Creamer, March 19, 2020
Netflix | Dirty Money | Season 2 | Point Comfort March 11, 2020
State finds evidence of UCC Seadrift discharging plastics into Victoria Barge Canal Victoria Advocate, January 25, 2020
‘WE ARE SO GRATEFUL’ Port Lavaca mayor gives Formosa president key to the city Victoria Advocate, January 24, 2020
Environmentalists sue federal government to overturn plastics plant permit Houston Chronicle, January 15, 2020
Settlement in Formosa Clean Water Act lawsuit goes into effect Victoria Advocate, January 14, 2020
2019
‘David-and-Goliath Story’ as Texas Environmental Activist Diane Wilson Wins $50 Million Judgement Against Plastics Giant Formosa Common Dreams, December 5, 2019
Retired Texas shrimper wins record-breaking $50 million settlement from plastics manufacturing giant The Texas Tribune, December 3, 2019
Manufacturer settles Gulf Coast pollution lawsuit for $50M San Antonio Business Journal, October 17, 2019
In Largest Settlement of Its Kind, Formosa Plastics Agrees to Pay $50 Million Environment and Energy Leader, October 16, 2019
No More Nurdles? Formosa’s Agreement to Stop Pumping Plastics Into Lavaca Bay Is Historic Texas Monthly, October 16, 2019
Formosa Plastics settles Lavaca Bay pollution case for $50 Million Houston Chronicle, October 15, 2019
Formosa to pay $50 million in pellet pollution settlement Plastics News, October 15, 2019
Formosa Plastics to pay US$50m over Texas Gulf pollution, Taipei Times (Oct. 17, 2019)
Plastic company set to pay $50 million settlement in water pollution suit brought on by Texas residents The Texas Tribune, October 15, 2019
Nurdles All the Way Down Texas Monthly, October, 2019
Spending time with a pellet pollution brigade at the water’s edge in Texas Plastics News, August 22, 2019
Federal judge rules against Formosa Plastics in pollution case, calling company a “serial offender” The Texas Tribune, June 28, 2019
Environmentalists take petrochemical giant Formosa to court over plastics pollution The Texas Tribune, March 25, 2019
Formosa Says it’s Just ‘Trace Amounts’ Texas Observer, Feb 4, 2019
Tristan Baurick, Formosa fined, sued over plastic pollution in Texas: report, The Times-Picayune (Feb. 18, 2019)
Louisiana OKs permit for plastics plant in ‘Cancer Alley’ Courthouse News Service, Feb 4, 2019
Report: Formosa worst polluter in the region Victoria Advocate, Jan 31, 2019
Formosa’s Texas plant fined $122,000 for plastic pellet spill Houston Chronicle, January 18, 2019
2018
Brooke Sjoberg, What Are Nurdles? On Texas Beaches, They’re A Menace, Texas Standard, Nov. 30, 2018
NGOs take Formosa Plastics to task over marine disaster in Vietnam Focus Taiwan, Jun 20, 2018
2017
World’s largest plastics plant rings alarm bells on Texas coast, The Guardian, Dec. 26, 2017
‘We are jobless because of fish poisoning’: Vietnamese fishermen battle for justice The Guardian, Aug 14, 2017
Formosa steel plant in Vietnam restarts after toxic spill Reuters, May 29, 2017
Gulf Coast Residents 60 day intent to sue Formosa San Antonio Express News, July 31, 2017
1993
Shrimpers Charge Plant Expansion is a Potential Fish Kill Austin American Statesmen, August 13th, 1993