Louisiana, Formosa appeal air permit vacatur

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEA) and Formosa Plastics are appealing a high-profile ruling by a state judge vacating Clean Air Act permits the state issued to the company for a nearly $10 billion chemical manufacturing complex in “cancer alley” in St. James Paris. The Sept. 27 notice in RISE St. James, et al. v. LDEQ says the state will appeal the ruling to the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit. The Sept. 12 decision to vacate the...