DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Seafood 120

Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 141

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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Africa Demand Seafood Agriculture 79

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Pastor Murphy told me on a call after he returned to the church for the first time since he evacuated before the storm that he and his wife were stunned when they found the only part of the church not harmed was the sanctuary where the Concerned Citizens of St John the Baptist, a community group, started meeting in late 2016.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 94

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

John, a community group that has been fighting for clean air since 2016. We have always had what we needed — we live off the water — with the seafood. On February 27, I returned to Reserve, Louisiana, in the heart of “ Cancer Alley ,” another region badly impacted by Ida. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Climate change Resilience Seafood Health 94

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2024

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. Noise and air pollution have made life difficult for nearby residents. In 2016, the U.S.

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Seafood Sea level rise Organic Health 87

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

James—says that Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group’s 2,400-acre Sunshine Project , which is slated to be built in a vulnerable floodplain amid intensifying climate-driven hurricanes and tropical storms,”presents an unnecessary burden for our already-polluted community.” Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.) and Donald McEachin (Va.)

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Plastics Pollution Seafood Soil 64