after multiple violations at the BASF’s Geismar facility. According to a settlement agreement, BASF agrees to pay LDEQ $35,460, of which $5,201.63 goes towards the department’s enforcement costs.

BASF's chemicals complex in Geismar, Louisiana, in ‘Cancer Alley,' an 85 mile stretch of the Mississippi river with over 150 toxic petrochemical plants, was ranked the 3rd worst polluter in the U.S.