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Louisiana Considered: Louisiana’s Lost Gravesites, RISE St. James’ Fight Against Environmental Racism

A map shows the location of Formosa's proposed mega-plant plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, "The Sunshine Project." RISE St. James is one group fighting against the plant’s construction.
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A map shows the location of Formosa's proposed mega-plant plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, "The Sunshine Project." RISE St. James is one group fighting against the plant’s construction.
  • RISE St. James organizer and recent Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sharon C. Lavigne joins us to tell the story of how she helped stop the construction of a $1.25 billion Wanhua plastics plant in St. James Parish, in the area called Cancer Alley.
Karl Lengel worked at New Orleans Public Radio for more than two decades before leaving the station in 2023.
Aubry is a reporter, producer and operations assistant in Baton Rouge.