Wilma Subra: Who Is She And Why Do We Need To Know?

Wilma Subra, a diminutive grandmother, has long challenged the corporate polluters in one of the nation's most toxic regions.

At 69, Subra is still working to rein in environmental degradation along Cancer Alley, an eye-watering corridor of more than 150 industrial facilities along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that produce a quarter of the nation's petrochemicals. She's a winner of a MacArthur "Genius grant" who totes her grandchildren to public hearings, giving them crayons to scribble on the back of scientific papers. She's a fighter who has taken on refineries, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas companies, including BP over its cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

The police asked the right question.
"Can you think of anyone who would want to do you harm?" investigators asked Wilma Subra, trying to understand who might have fired a gun at the diminutive grandmother.

Read the full article here.

Vote for her to receive 2012 Louisiana's Cox Conserves Heroes  here.

Gas Drilling: Worker Safety

Chilling, important short film upcoming from Josh Fox, on worker safety in the gas fields. Please watch and share the trailer, here. Josh Fox says, "Senator Tony Avella of NY has taken up their cause, drafting a worker safety bill for New York that will serve as a template for workers in the oil and gas fields across the US. ... Negligence on sites and unsafe working conditions including risk of chemical exposure cannot be acceptable by our governments that are touting a jobs boom in the gas fields any longer."