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Gov. Buddy Roemer said that Formosa must meet new and improved state environmental standards for proposed $2 billion chemical plant in Wallace.

Lionel Bailey of Edgard hired by Formosa to be environmental manager of proposed rayon plant in Wallace; he posseses 14 years' experience in the environmental field, including two years at the stat

Environmentalists opposed to Formosa plant in Wallace have new ammunition as videotape footage has emerged of protesters in Taiwan protesting a Formosa plant there.

Formosa building $47 million polyvinyl chlorid film plant and $8 million PVC pipe plant in Batchelor; will employ about 300 workers in rural Pointe Coupee.

Article notes how stately plantation homes along River Road less begining to resemble Germany's Rhine valley and more like it's Ruhr Valley due to encroachment of petrochemical companies.

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Judge Remy Chaisson rules against Save Our Wetlands, saying they had failed to prove the rezoning was "arbritrary and capricious."