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NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana allowed a widower’s wrongful death claims to proceed against Shell and a specialty chemicals firm, whose petrochemical plant allegedly polluted the air with ethylene oxide that caused the man’s wife to die of breast cancer. He adequately argued the companies breached a standard of care owed to residents living near the plant.
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