The Bay She Loves Is Choked with Microplastics. She’s Taking the Polluter to Court.

The Bay She Loves Is Choked with Microplastics. She’s Taking the Polluter to Court.

Before it all started, Diane Wilson didn’t think of herself as someone who starts a ruckus. But Wilson, a retired shrimp captain living in a cabin in the Texas woods, reached her tipping point in 1989 when a local fisherman showed her a damning report. Her quiet, rural county by the San Antonio Bay had one of the highest amounts of toxic pollution in the country. The report linked the findings to the area’s high concentration of industrial chemi…