This is a common story throughout the southeast.

Europeans, Japanese--and other countries smart enough not to further pollute their own countries--export it to the southeastern US, where everyone is either so focused on JOBS! MONEY! that they'll roll the dice with cancer, or just so beat-down that they can't put up an adequate defense.

Here's a similar case from 2016 in Mississippi: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did-the-epa-prosecute-an...