Meta data center pollution permit doesn’t account for all its emissions, Sierra Club says

By: Elise Plunk

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: August 4, 2026

Words: 565

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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An environmental group argues Louisiana officials did not account for all of the harmful emissions Meta’s data center in Richland Parish will produce when it approved the facility’s Clean Air Act permit revisions in June.

In comments submitted Thursday to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the Sierra Club argues that changes to Meta’s Hyperion facility air pollution permit should require it to have a more stringent permit rather than one it obtained. …

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