Judge drops suit since Corps reconsidering plastics complex

NEW ORLEANS (AP) � A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a Chinese conglomerate�s plans for a $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana because the Army Corps of Engineers is reconsidering its permit. Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group plans to build 10 chemical plants and four other major facilities in Welcome, where the Census Bureau estimates that nearly 97% of the 880 residents are Black. The Corps said in November that it will study five possible sites in a predominan