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Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

For the retired shrimper, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

 Diane Wilson (right), Sharon Lavigne (left) and Nancy Bui display pictures of Vietnamese activists jailed for demanding reparations over the Formosa Plastics’ 2016 chemical spill disaster on May 28 in Taipei. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
Environmental advocates join state legislators and health care professionals to urge the passage of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act on Monday in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

New York Plastics Law Advances Amid Debate Over ‘Chemical Recycling’

By Lauren Dalban
The Freepoint Eco-Systems chemical recycling plant near Hebron, Ohio, emits black smoke in July 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Shawn Jones

As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location

By James Bruggers

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling 

By James Bruggers
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
A worker fries tofu over a furnace fueled by a combination of plastic waste, wood and coconut husks at a tofu factory on May 22, 2025, in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Credit: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images

Burning Plastic Waste for Household Fuel Endangers Millions 

By Liza Gross
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
A volunteer from the Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation collects plastic waste from a mangrove swamp on July 26 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Credit: Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions 

By Liza Gross
An Indigenous Guna scientist monitors a nesting leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Armila, Panama. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Deadly in Small Doses: New Research Shows the Lethal Effects of Ingested Plastic on Marine Animals

By Teresa Tomassoni
A view of Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort complex, near the site of Exxon’s planned plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour
Plastic pellets, known as nurdles, coat the ground at the site of a train derailment near ExxonMobil’s Baytown facility in Texas on Dec. 6, 2024. Credit: Rebekah F. Ward/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways

By Lauren Dalban
The Three Rivers Waterkeeper found tiny “nurdles” in the water and banks of Raccoon Creek in western Pennsylvania. Credit: Three Rivers Waterkeeper

Pennsylvania Plastics Pollution Settlement Could Set a National Precedent for Control of Pellets

By Jon Hurdle
People walk a beach along Lake Michigan in Whiting, Ind. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Great Lakes Microplastics Research Could Inform National and Global Policy

By Sarah Mattalian
The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pa., produces polyethylene, a type of single-use plastic, using ethane. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant

By Kiley Bense
Waste pickers carry plastic materials to recycle at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers

By Liza Gross
Luis Vayas Valdivieso, chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, speaks during the second part of the fifth session of the INC on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: Florian Fussstetter/UNEP

Nations Meet in Geneva in a Final Push to End Plastic Pollution

By Liza Gross
Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso listens to a comment by a delegate during the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 1, 2024. Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say

By Liza Gross
Erik Jon Olson makes decorative quilts out of single use plastic. Credit: Courtesy of Erik Jon Olson

The Unexpected Beauty and Deep Meaning of Plastic-Waste Art

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

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