5th Circuit Allows Suit Seeking Petrochemical Plant Ban In ‘Cancer Alley’

The 5th Circuit is reversing a federal district court and allowing environmental justice (EJ) groups to proceed with their civil rights suit seeking a moratorium on new and expanded petrochemical plants in Louisiana’s “cancer alley,” offering a win for advocates even as the Trump administration is broadly attacking such EJ work. The April 9 decision from a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Inclusive Louisiana, et al. v. St. James Parish, et...