| Notes | 'Vanessa annotated (11/10/2021)\n\n\n\n\n\nFull citation (with link)\n\n\n\n\nHolden, Emily \"US climate activists charged with \'terrorizing\' lobbyist over plastic pollution stunt\" The Guardian. June 25, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/louisiana-bucket-brigade...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat information is provided about your setting and its assets?\n\n\n\n\nThe charges stem from a plastic pollution awareness event in December called “Nurdlefest”.(Holden, 2020)\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\nArticle refers to pollution waste such as plastic pellets: \"The file folder contained plastic pellets and information about the harm they inflict on the environment and human health\"(Holden, 2020)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat information is provided about intersecting factors -- social, cultural, health, political, technological, ecological -- that contribute to environmental health vulnerability and injustice in this setting?\n\n\n\n\n\"Spees said the activists also included a warning that the small plastic pellets could be a choking hazard for children.\" (Holden, 2020)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat stakeholders are identified and how are they described?\n\n\n\n\nFormosa Plastics, Louisiana Bucket Brigade\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\nRise St James\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat local actions to reduce environmental vulnerability and injustice are described or suggested?\n\n\n\n\nNot specified, as the article focuses on activists being charged by a felony for “terrorizing” an oil and gas lobbyist by delivering a box of plastic pellets found as pollution in bays on the Texas coast\" (Holden, 2020)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat extra-local actions (at state, national or international levels) to reduce environmental vulnerability and injustice are described or suggested?\n\n\n\n\n\"Formosa has agreed to pay $50m to settle a lawsuit for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act by discharging plastic pellets into bays from its plant in Point Comfort, Texas.\"(Holden, 2020)\n\n\n\n - vanessadiehl'
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