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Formosa fined nearly $1.5M for EPA violations

By: Frank Esposito

POINT COMFORT, TEXAS -- Formosa Plastics Corp. USA has been fined almost $1.5 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to install more than 8,000 pieces of leak detection and repair equipment at its plastics and chemicals plant in Point Comfort.

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