Inside Climate News: Award Winning Activist Fights Plastic Pollution in Texas

Diane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal notice of intent on Wednesday to sue Dow for alleged large-scale discharges of plastic pellets from its 4,700-acre petrochemical complex outside Seadrift, Texas. Wilson, a 77-year-old former shrimper from Seadrift, sued another Gulf Coast petrochemical giant, Formosa Plastics, and ultimately won a landmark settlement in 2019. Boatmen for her nonprofit, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper, spent the past several years steering skiffs up an industrial canal to gather evidence of chronic plastic pollution from Dow. “Untold quantities of plastic nurdles and other pollutants are being discharged into waters and lands surrounding the Facility,” stated the 25-page document. More heroics HERE.