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Dow

A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

Four decades into her crusade against Texas petrochemical plants, a retired shrimper remains determined to fight Dow, the largest chemical company in America.

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

Diane Wilson sits in her tent, 14 days into her hunger strike, outside Dow’s Seadrift complex on March 16.
A plastic Starbucks cup.

Your ‘Widely Recyclable’ Starbucks Cup Is Still Trash

Joseph Winters, Grist

The 4,700-acre Seadrift Operations complex produces various plastics as well as chemicals for antifreeze, paints, detergents, shampoo and other beauty products on the Gulf Coast in Calhoun County, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Dow Asks Texas to Legalize Plastic Pollution From Its Seadrift Complex

By Dylan Baddour

A view of Dow’s Seadrift chemical complex from the Victoria Barge Canal in Texas on Feb. 1. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Alleges ‘Habitual Non-Compliance’ of Wastewater Rules at Dow Chemical Complex 

By Dylan Baddour

Diane Wilson outside the Formosa Plastics plant in Point Comfort, Texas, in November 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP ia Getty Images

Diane Wilson Takes on Another Plastics Plant in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Diane Wilson holds a bottle with PVC plastic powder, a type of microplastic, collected in the Matagorda Bay system in December 2024. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Microplastics from Texas Bays Are Washed Out to Sea, New Study Says

By Dylan Baddour

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Operators peer into the reactor pool where Texas A&M University’s Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA) nuclear research reactor emits a blue glow on March 11, 2024 in College Station. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Small Nuclear Reactors May Be Coming to Texas, Boosted by Interest From Gov. Abbott

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

Nick Vafiadis, the vice president of plastics for Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, the Dow Jones Company, speaks at his company's plastics conference known as GPS + PEPP. Credit: James Bruggers

The Plastics Industry Searches for a ‘Circular’ Way to Cut Plastic Waste and Make More Plastics

By James Bruggers

An ExxonMobil sign is seen on a gas station on October 25, 2018 in Gutenberg New Jersey. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

An Oil Giant’s Wall Street Fall: The World is Sending the Industry Signals, but is Exxon Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

In Letter to Obama, Leading US Businesses Call for Leadership at Copenhagen

By SolveClimate Staff

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