September 23, 2020
| Press Release: Victory
The Latest On: Petrochemicals
September 4, 2020
| In the News: Grist
New York’s Plastic Bag Ban has Survived the Pandemic
Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, Attorney, Northeast Regional Office, Earthjustice: “We see the use of plastic bags as a climate change and community health problem. [Thicker plastic bags were] not what the legislature intended…. It wanted to end the use of plastic bags, full stop.”
August 31, 2020
| In the News: Independent
Lt. General Who Led Katrina Evacuations Warns Of Pollution Risk From Climate-Driven Extreme Weather Following Hurricane Laura
Michael Brown, Attorney, Fossil Fuel Program, Earthjustice: “Since [Hurricane] Harvey, the petrochemical and oil and gas industry have had a massive build-out plan for the Gulf Coast. They’ve been adding more infrastructure, including in Lake Charles, intending that these plants will exist for 30-50 years without addressing the increasing climate risk they are going to be facing from storms like we saw this week.”
August 20, 2020
| Press Release: Victory
New York Court Rejects Loophole in the State’s Plastic Bag Ban and Upholds the New Law
August 19, 2020
| Press Release
Clean Water Advocates Challenge Fracked Gas Solution Mining Wells Permits
July 27, 2020
| In the News: MRCplast.com
Formosa Plastics Agrees To Delay Work On Louisiana Complex Until 2021
July 19, 2020
| In the News: Columbus Dispatch
Partner’s Pullout Latest Blow to Viability of Chemical-Plant Project in Ohio
Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “Daelim’s pullout is further evidence that the project is no longer viable, and that petrochemical development is not going to provide the [Ohio] Valley with real, lasting economic opportunity.”
July 2, 2020
| Explainer