| Notes | 'Vanessa annotated (11/10/2021)\n\n\n\n\n\nFull citation (with link)\n\n\n\n\nYamin, Priscilla. \"Just a country girl\" Mother Jones. August 1999. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/07/motherjones-ja93-just-count...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat information is provided about your setting and its assets?\n\n\n\n\n\"In 1989 Diane Wilson was astonished to read that the southern Texas coastal town of Point Comfort–her home–was site of the number-one polluting plant in the nation.\"(Yamin, 1999)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat information is provided about environmental health threats (from explosions, everyday pollution, climate change, etc ) in your setting?\n\n\n\n\n\"Wilson and CCRW battle local corporate polluters like ALCOA and Union Carbide–companies that, she admits, provide jobs for the county (one of the most economically devastated regions in the country) but at the expense of clean air and water. \"(Yamin, 1999)\nWhat stakeholder actions are described?\n\n\n\n\"She’s[Diane] currently fighting to halt the $1.7 billion expansion of the Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Corporation’s Calhoun County petrochemical plant. Formosa’s wastes threaten to contaminate nearby Lavaca Bay and ruin the $140 million local fishing industry.\"(Yamin, 1999)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat references are there to news reports, or reports by government agencies, environmental groups or companies? Provide links.\n\n\n\n\nEPA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n - vanessadiehl'
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