Southern Louisiana, USA
This collection focuses on Formosa Plastic's operations in Baton Rouge and planned expansion in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project
This is the Transnational STS COVID-19 project page.
Timeline: Cancer Alley News Reporting
News reporting about industrial development and environmental injustice in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," with a focus on the expansion of Formosa Plastics.
Formosa You're Not Welcome Here
Billboard
Formosa and Whitney Plantation: Lawsuits
Documents track legal challenges to Formosa's planned facility.
Formosa Plastics and Whitney Plantation: EPA
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.
Wimmer and Schiller critique methodological nationalism from multiple angles, examining the history of US immigration to make their case.