Not my problem

John Bel:  Well if Formosa wants to keep collecting state subsidies to dump poison everywhere, that's really not any of our business.

Edwards said he has spoken often with Chuck Carr Brown, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, and expects the permits will survive the legal challenges.

"You have standards in place, and, if an application is put in that meets the applicable standards, then you permit it," Edwards said. "I mean, that's the way this works, and, if they'd like to change the standards, then that's something that EPA needs to look at."

Maybe people should be better protected from the racist condescension,  anti-speech bullying and global climate disaster wrought by malevolent actors like Formosa.  But it's not anything John Bel is going to lift a finger to do anything about so long as they filled out the forms okay.