Corinne Van Dalen

Supervising Senior Attorney

Fossil Fuels Program

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LA, FL (inactive)

Corinne Van Dalen

Supervising Senior Attorney Fossil Fuels Program

Dustin Renaud
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
drenaud@earthjustice.org

Corinne Van Dalen is a Senior Attorney with the Fossil Fuels Program and is based in New Orleans. She joined Earthjustice in 2019 to fight the petrochemical buildout in Louisiana planned for communities disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution.

She represents frontline groups and ally organizations in permit challenges before state and federal agencies, judicial review proceedings in state court, and zoning disputes before local governing bodies.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Corinne worked at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic litigating and training students in Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act citizen suits, permit challenges, and environmental justice complaints. Her work focused on protecting many of the same communities targeted for the current petrochemical buildout.

Corinne is originally from New Jersey and earned both a B.S. in Journalism and a J.D. from the University of Florida.

Dustin Renaud
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
drenaud@earthjustice.org

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LA, FL (inactive)

Quoted in the News

May 2, 2025

The Times-Picayune

Air Products delays $8 billion Ascension plant, looking to find buyer for carbon capture, ammonia portion

“This is great news for all the groups and community members who have been fighting this ill-conceived project from the start.”

Latest Press Statements

Satellite Imagery of IMTT Tank farm in the middle of residential communities along the Mississippi River.
September 28, 2026

Community Group Challenges IMTT Expansion

LDEQ air permit would allow construction of a large ammonia storage system and more than a dozen new bulk storage tanks next to communities already burdened by industrial pollution
Maurepas Swamp. Protected from Air Products' CO2 pipeline.
July 1, 2026

Air Products Abandons Proposed Louisiana “Blue” Hydrogen and Ammonia Plant with Carbon Capture Scheme

Community groups celebrate the company’s decision to pull out — citing the huge risks associated with the project’s polluting facility and carbon dioxide pipeline
Sharon Lavigne of RISE St. James is an Earthjustice client and partner in a case against the “Sunshine Project” — a plant proposed by the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation.
January 19, 2024

Louisiana Court Ruling Reverses Lower Court Decision and Upholds Air Permits for Formosa Plastics’ Massive Petrochemical Complex in Cancer Alley

Massive proposed petrochemical complex would exacerbate toxic pollution in predominantly Black communities