Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
A massive new plastics plant planned for Louisiana's St. James Parish in that state's chemical corridor faces the same challenging economic headwinds that have stalled the construction of petrochemical plants in Appalachia.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the wetlands permit for the $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed in St. James Parish.
