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Meet the jet-setting anti-oil activists who live like kings
The Globe Trotting Lifestyle Of Three Anti-Oil Activists Who Live ‘Like Royalty’
Nestled between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is a stretch of land dubbed “Cancer Alley,” where activists blame high cancer rates on nearby petrochemical plants.Several local groups have sprung up to fight these plants, garnering national attention and funding as they rail against the dangers of fossil fuels, not just in Louisiana, but across the country.Some of these groups seem powered by the very fossil fuels they oppose.A Daily Wire review found that the leaders of three Louisiana-based environmental activist groups — Rise St. James, the Vessel Project, and the Descendents Project — take frequent domestic and international trips, jetting around the globe from Europe to the Middle East to Asia. Collectively, top leaders of the groups have taken dozens of international and domestic trips between 2019 and 2025 while hobnobbing with prominent Democrats and global elites, according to a review of social media posts. Several of the groups are also linked to the group Beyond Petrochemicals, an organization founded by climate alarmist and billionaire Michael Bloomberg.Activism has opened...
