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Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I don't know how unexpected or quiet that is, the gulf coast area all around there is already littered with plants of all types, a lot of which are making things more toxic than plastics manufacturing. Texas' version of the EPA has been a farce for a long time so the only thing keeping them at bay was the Federal EPA, which we know how that's going.