People Over Pollution
Petrochemicals are a triple threat to climate progress, public health, and the environment.
Our mission is to block the expansion of petrochemical plants in communities across the U.S.
A Growing Threat
Petrochemicals — which come from fossil fuels — are toxic chemicals used to manufacture many different products, including beauty products, household cleaners, and wasteful single-use plastics.
A Bad Bet
As the U.S. works to transition to clean, renewable energy, the oil and gas industry has plans to expand its petrochemical footprint exponentially.
Too Close for Comfort
New petrochemical plants are overwhelmingly proposed in communities of color and low-income areas that already face toxic pollution and higher risks of cancer, respiratory illness, and other life-threatening diseases.
Stopping the Expansion
Communities on the frontlines of petrochemical pollution are leading the effort to stop the spread of petrochemicals, and we are turbocharging their efforts.
Wins against petrochemical polluters
Building on existing efforts led by frontline communities, Beyond Petrochemicals is committed to blocking the expansion of petrochemical plants concentrated in three target geographies — Louisiana, Texas, and the Ohio River Valley.
Mountaineer NGL storage facility would have constructed underground storage caverns to store ethane, butane, and propane, risking explosions and contamination to the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to 5 million people.
Learn MoreCommunity members stopped South Louisiana Methanol, which would have emitted over 2 million tons of carbon each year and choked the nearby playground, ball fields, and senior center with toxic pollution.
Learn MoreBig Lake Fuels requested to pull its permits for a proposed methanol plant, which would have released 2 million tons of carbon emissions into the Lake Charles community each year.
Learn MoreIn 2022, TopChem Ammonia plant rescinded its permits to build a massive ammonia facility, which would have released an estimated 550,000 tons of carbon emissions each year.
Learn MoreThe PTT Global Chemical ethylene cracker plant would have been one of the largest facilities of its kind in the U.S., emitting 1.8 million tons of carbon and 1,000 tons of air pollution each year into nearby homes, shops, and the Ohio River.
Learn MoreFacing community-led opposition, Encina Development Group withdrew plans to build the largest chemical recycling facility of its kind, which would have risked poisoning the Susquehanna River waterway and exposing communities to toxic, cancer-causing chemicals.
Learn MoreThe Appalachian Storage Hub was a proposed underground storage facility that would have stretched along the Ohio River from Kentucky to Pennsylvania, enabling massive petrochemical expansion across the Ohio River Valley.
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