People Over Pollution

PetroLogistics failed to begin construction on their proposed PDH Plant, averting hundreds of tons of harmful air pollution from the surrounding community.

After years of organizing by community members, the CCI Corpus Christi Condensate Splitter Facility failed to begin construction by their permit deadline, averting an estimated 200,000+ tons of carbon emissions and 650+ tons of dangerous air pollution each year.

LyondellBasell requested to void permits to expand their sprawling Channelview Complex, which would have increased their massive carbon emission footprint and choked the nearby community with even more toxic pollution.

Citing a myriad of issues, Mitsubishi Chemical Group abandoned plans to build a new MMA production facility. The plant would have been the largest of its kind in the world producing more than 750,000 tons of carbon pollution each year.

Nacero canceled air permits for their massive Penwell Facility amid a lack of investor interest. If built, the plant would have emitted an estimated 5.7 million tons of carbon pollution each year.

LDEQ announced that permits had expired for the IGP Gulf Coast Methanol Complex, which would have been the largest methanol complex in the world and emitted more than 2.5 million tons of carbon pollution each year.

Ohio EPA revoked permits to expand the Nutrien Lima Nitrogen Plant, which is currently the largest nitrogen fertilizer plant in the country.

Amid falling prices and a bleak financial outlook, Nutrien canceled plans to build the largest ‘blue’ ammonia plant in the world, which would have produced over 500,000 tons of carbon emissions each year.

After significant setbacks and delays, Nacero canceled plans for the proposed Nacero Marcellus Facility, which would have released an estimated 7 million tons of carbon emissions and 3,400 tons of dangerous air pollution each year.

After a string of financial setbacks, Fulcrum BioFuels Inc. declared bankruptcy and canceled their plans for the Fulcrum Trinity Fuels Biorefinery, which would have released 280,000+ tons of air pollution each year into the Baytown community.

Communities organized to stop the Gary Fulcrum Centerpoint Plant, which would have emitted an estimated 300,000+ tons of air pollution each year into Gary communities, which already face some of the highest levels of industrial pollution in the country.

Community members stopped South Louisiana Methanol, which would have emitted over 2 million tons of carbon each year and choked the nearby playground, ball fields, and senior center with toxic pollution.

Mountaineer NGL storage facility would have constructed underground storage caverns to store ethane, butane, and propane, risking explosions and contamination to the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to 5 million people.

Big Lake Fuels requested to pull its permits for a proposed methanol plant, which would have released 2 million tons of carbon emissions into the Lake Charles community each year.

In 2022, TopChem Ammonia plant rescinded its permits to build a massive ammonia facility, which would have released an estimated 550,000 tons of carbon emissions each year.

The PTT Global Chemical ethylene cracker plant would have been one of the largest facilities of its kind in the U.S., emitting 1.8 million tons of carbon and 1,000 tons of air pollution each year into nearby homes, shops, and the Ohio River.

Facing community-led opposition, Encina Development Group withdrew plans to build the largest chemical recycling facility of its kind, which would have risked poisoning the Susquehanna River waterway and exposing communities to toxic, cancer-causing chemicals.

The Appalachian Storage Hub was a proposed underground storage facility that would have stretched along the Ohio River from Kentucky to Pennsylvania, enabling massive petrochemical expansion across the Ohio River Valley.