After two weeks of negotiations between more than 50 countries, the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) ended last Friday without establishing a High Seas Treaty — once again leaving more than two-thirds of the global ocean unprotected. But important progress was also made, which the Only One community of supporters has helped push for. World leaders are closer than ever before to finalizing the treaty, and there’s reason to be optimistic that the next negotiation will be the last step in the nearly two-decades–long process. We can’t let up the pressure now, and we need you with us! Can you help build momentum for the coalition to protect the High Seas by sharing our petition with your network? We’re just shy of our goal of 75,000 signatures.
Stopping the devastating expansion of polluting petrochemical plants hinges on blocking the buildout of an industrial dock and grain facility in Wallace, Louisiana. Tell Governor Edwards and Louisiana leaders to #BlockTheDock.
In Wallace, nearly every family has a story about cancer. The small town, nestled on the West bank of the Mississippi River, is part of an 85-mile stretch where the risk of cancer from air pollution is up to 50 times higher than the rest of the country.
The deadly pollution that gave Cancer Alley its name comes largely from the area’s high density of industrial plants – including petrochemical facilities that turn oil into plastic. Their fumes are toxic, and the community has been left with little to no support.
In the surrounding Parish, children keep towels under their school desks, so that they can wrap them around their faces when nearby facilities start spewing thick smoke and fire plumes into the sky, a procedure known as flaring.
