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Riviera: 150 chemical plants operate along New Orleans-Baton Rouge corridor

Gloria Riviera · Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath · Mar 13, 2023 · at 4:14

Host Gloria Riviera describes the scale of petrochemical infrastructure in Louisiana's Industrial Corridor while reporting on environmental impacts in St. James Parish.

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“This 85 mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is known as the Industrial Corridor. There are some 150 plants and refineries up and down this part of the Mississippi that process oil and produce the chemicals that make up plastic.”

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The claim, plainly

There are approximately 150 plants and refineries along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that process oil and produce chemicals for plastic.

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Assessment

Gloria Riviera stated on March 13, 2023, that there are approximately 150 plants and refineries along the 85-mile Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans processing oil and chemical feedstocks for plastics. Independent spatial, regulatory, and academic datasets corroborating this estimate include EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program records (documenting 149 reporting industrial facilities in the corridor as of 2023), Tulane University spatial analyses (identifying 135 to 150 petrochemical and refining facilities between 2021 and 2022), and Human Rights Watch reports cataloging roughly 150 to 200 operating facilities along this exact stretch.

EPA emissions registry data compiled by the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice documented approximately 149 reporting industrial facilities along the 85-mile corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in May 2023.
A June 2021 Tulane University spatial study identified between 135 and 150 petrochemical and refining facilities in this 85-mile stretch.
Human Rights Watch's comprehensive 2024 report cataloged 150 to 200 operating fossil fuel, petrochemical, and plastic-precursor facilities along the same corridor.
Official Louisiana regulatory and economic registries confirm the heavy concentration of over 150 petrochemical plants situated primarily along the lower Mississippi River industrial corridor.

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[1] arnolditkin.com [2] hrw.org [3] thelensnola.org [4] dscej.org [5] tulane.edu [6] beyondplastics.org [7] house.gov [8] opportunitylouisiana.gov

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