19 Sep 2022 --- A district court in Louisiana, US, has revoked environmental permits from a planned plastic production facility that would have been one of the world’s largest producers of PE, PP and ethanol glycol. Dubbed the “sunshine project,” the site was to be located within the region’s “cancer alley” – an 86-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that accounts for 25% of the nation’s petrochemical production. As the name suggests, residents in Cancer Alley have a far higher rate of cancer than the national average, with reports that in some towns, almost every household has suffered a premature death.
