Good morning, im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. This morning a dangerous, unusual winter storm is hitting the south with snow, ice and freezing rain. States of emergency have been declared in kentucky, georgia, mississippi, virginia and north carolina. The storm is affecting travel and tens of thousands of customers have already lost power. In north carolina, nearly 100 counties are under a weather alert. A thick blanket of ice is expected in the middle of the state, and residents are being told to stay off the roads. In tennessee, freezing rain gripped power lines and snapped tree branches. Officials warn the threat of significant Power Outages exist due to the ice. The storm is headed to the northeast after it leaves the midatlantic, and that means even more snow for boston where the city has hired extra workers to try to get mass transit running at full length. And following the storm, more bitter cold. This building in philadelphia turned into an ice castle as firefighters
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Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the United States. Now Formosa planned to spend $9.4 billion on facilities that would make polymer and ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene ingredients found in antifreeze, drainage pipes, and a variety of single-use plastics just two miles down the road from her family home. The concentration of carcinogens in the atmosphere could triple.
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Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the United States. Now Formosa planned to spend $9.4 billion on facilities that would make polymer and ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene ingredients found in antifreeze, drainage pipes, and a variety of single-use plastics just two miles down the road from her family home. The concentration of carcinogens in the atmosphere could triple.
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