Cool Solutions:  Stories of climate action from the bottom up

This Is My Home: Women whup petrochemical giant


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The David who fought Goliath had two sisters. This is the modern day story about two women taking on a giant. They started alone, standing up against a huge multinational petrochemical corporation, and won. Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from Seadrift Texas, won the largest ever penalty in a citizen clean water lawsuit, defending her bay from plastic pollution. Sharon Lavigne of St James Parish, Louisiana, stopped the same company, Formosa Plastics, from building the largest petrochemical plant in the world in her small Black community.  

This is an updated story first broadcast in 2021 

 

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Cool Solutions:  Stories of climate action from the bottom upBy Wendy Ring