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Lawsuits increasing in energy, plastics, chemical manufacturing industries

(The Center Square) — Louisiana’s industrial giants, ports and local governments are facing an increasingly coordinated barrage of lawsuits from small but determined groups.

From St. James to Cameron Parish, environmental justice organizations have dragged parish commissions, global corporations and state agencies into court.

One group, The Descendants Project, a nonprofit based in St. John the Bapt…

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