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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">919 desmog</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley. The news bought relief to opponents of the plant. </font></p><div class="views-field views-field-body" style="overflow: inherit;"><div class="field-content"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>I’m glad they won’t be coming,” Eve Butler, a lifelong resident of St. James Parish, told me in a call. “I live straight across the river from where the plant was going to be built.” Butler was part of a group of residents, local community groups, and environmental advocacy nonprofits that took part in a concentrated battle to stop the Wanhua plant from being built. </font></p></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-view-node" style="text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="field-content"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/09/06/chinese-wanhua-chemical-plastics-louisiana-cancer-alley" style="outline: 0px;">READ MOR</a>E</font></span></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p>