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Diane Wilson On Hunger Strike, Demands Zero Discharge Of Plastics

April 25, 2026 Rav Mosley, Crossroads Today. , , , , ,
Seadrift, Texas — Environmental activist Diane Wilson has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month, protesting Dow Chemical over plastic pellets she says are turning up in San Antonio Bay near Seadrift. Wilson, a longtime critic of industrial pollution along the Texas coast, says the small pellets, a raw material used to make plastic products — pose risks to the bay and surrounding communities. “You are destroying your health, your bay system, your whole communities, and it’s very destructive,” Wilson said. “This bay does not belong to Dow … we’re trying to get them to zero discharge the plastic.”

Texas Shrimper Who Fights Plastic Pollution Won The ‘Green Nobel Prize’

April 25, 2023 Sara Sneath, Desmog. , , ,
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar corporate polluter in court and won, has received a 2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism. Wilson’s $50 million settlement with Formosa Plastics Corp. – for illegal pollution of the bays surrounding its Point Comfort, Texas plant – is the largest monetary settlement to date in a lawsuit brought by a private individual under the Clean Water Act, according to Texas RioGrande Aid, the legal aid agency that represented Wilson. The prize money is helping fund local community efforts to slow coastal erosion, build a park, and send kids to camp.
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