Formosa Plastics Global Archive 台灣塑膠檔案館
The Formosa Plastics Archive (FPA) (台灣塑膠檔案館) documents environmental disaster caused by one of the world's largest petrochemical companies.
Photo Essay: Formosa Plastics Museum, Taoyuan
This is a collaborative photo essay about the Formosa Plastics Group Museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chemical Transportation Risk and Safety
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In April 2024, Formosa Plastics Corp. USA was among 137 companies to receive the 2023 Pinnacle Award by the Union Pacific Railroad for "safe shipping of hazardous materials". The transport company honors cusotmers that "release prevention protocols, corrective action plans and have zero non-accident releases of regulated hazardous materials shipments".
Meanwhile, journalists at the Intercept have followed how in the aftermath of the East Palestine train disaster, lobbyists have both weakened rail safety (Thakker 2023) and supported the buildout of toxic polyvinylchloride (PVC) production (Mitchell 2023, 2024). The latter includes Formosa Plastics planned expansions in Louisiana's St. James Parish.
ALMA High School Research Intern Program 2024
UCI EcoGovLab EnvGov Intern Program: Santa Ana California | 2024
Watching, Witnessing, Resisting
I'm developing this memo based on a reading of Sam Spiegel's 2021 article Fossil fuel violence and visual practice
Zoom recording of the May 2024 Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting in Santa Ana, California, organized by GREEN-MPNA and EcoGovLab.