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Louisiana Judge Cancels Air Permits for $9.4 Billion Dollar Plastics Plant

9/16/2022

Louisiana District Judge Trudy White canceled state air permits this week belonging to a proposed $9.4 billion dollar plastics complex in St. James Parish, headed by Formosa Plastics. This announcement pushes this project further back from any new progress, as it has faced local and environmental opposition for nearly three years now. The Formosa Sunshine project has been proposed to be located on 2,500 acres in an already dense collection of chemical plants in St. James Parish and has been dubbed “Cancer Alley” by local activists.  This decision by the district judge is just the latest setback for this project, since last August the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers ordered an EIS review of the

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