Taft News

Richard Misrach, American, born 1949, Holy Rosary Cemetery and Dow Chemical Corporation , Taft, Louisiana, 1998, Inkjet print The current photography exhibition at the High Museum, "Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley," is a powerful reminder of the virtue only a photograph can deliver.

St. Charles Parish is looking for a new Emergency Preparedness Director, after incumbent Scott Whelchel accepted a similar job at Dow Chemical's Taft plant.

TAFT, La. Officials in St. Charles Parish are monitoring a possible reaction involving an explosive chemical at the Dow chemical plant in Taft.

The NRC says the Waterford 3 plant in Taft, La., began a controlled shutdown at 3 p.m. Tuesday.