The company, an affiliate of Formosa Plastics, said it intended to move forward with the $9.4 billion complex in St. James Parish despite the ruling.
Tag: Hazardous and Toxic Substances
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To Prevent a Martian Plague, NASA Needs to Build a Very Special Lab
The likelihood is low that bringing rocks to Earth from the red planet will make us sick, but the space agency isn’t taking any chances.
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Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique
The harmful molecules are everywhere, but chemists have made progress in developing a method to break them down.
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What Are Burn Pits, and How Did They Harm U.S. Troops?
Veterans and their advocates describe continuously burning fires on overseas bases that consumed the military’s trash and produced toxic smoke.
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Biden Signs Bill to Help Veterans Exposed to Toxic Burn Pits
President Biden, who has long advocated the expanded benefits, has speculated that his son Beau developed brain cancer because of exposure to burn pits when he served in Iraq.