League of Women Voters Plastics Panel

Pollution from plastics and issues surrounding Formosa Plastics whose US headquarters is in Livingston will be the topic of a forum on May 21st, 2025, at 7:30 PM organized by the Livingston League of Women Voters, Co-sponsored by the Teaneck League of Women Voters, a panel will discuss the health effects of plastics and activism regarding Formosa Plastics. The forum will be held on Zoom and the link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89318546873?pwd=94k2SaOTA4vlxD3LEQcE0TMLmPcyQz.1

Panelists include Phoebe Stapleton, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Environmental and Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. Also speaking is Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherwoman and executive director of the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper on the Texas Gulf Coast. She’s a Goldman Environmental Prize Winner who won a landmark case against Formosa Plastics, one of the world’s largest petrochemical companies, for the illegal dumping of toxic plastic waste on…