Formosa and Whitney Plantation: Lawsuits
Documents track legal challenges to Formosa's planned facility.
Documents track legal challenges to Formosa's planned facility.
Essay details the EPA's role in compliance with Formosa's attempt to build the proposed facility. Articles detail community meetings with EPA members, and an EIS investigation of Formosa.
This collection offers detailed history and personal accounts of Whitney plantation, giving context to Formosa's attempts to purchase the land as well as providing critical commentary to these atte
This collection of news articles details the fraudulent activity of local officials in connection to Formosa, detailing the trial proceedings and findings.
This selection of news articles tracks criticisms from local residents to the zoning and construction of the proposed Formosa facility.
This essay includes commentary and news articles about Formosa Plastics's industrial rezoning of the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana.
"The risk for commuicable disease transmission after disasters is associated primarily with the size and characteristics of the population displaced, specifically the proximity of safe water adn functioning latrines, the nutritional status of the displaced population, the level of immunuty to vaccine-preventable diseases..., and the access to healthcare services"
"...natural disasters (regardless of type) that do not result in population displacement are rarely associated with outbreaks"
"When death is directly due to the natural disaster, human remains do not pose a rise for outbreaks"