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.
This may not be the right place to post/share this, and I am happy to delete or move it! But I wanted to make a plug for the 1619 Project, and this post in particular, as helpfully complementing some of the other readings (such as McKittrick and Moore et al) on America's plantation history.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capital…