The Louisiana Supreme Court has sided with a company that had been seeking to build a controversial grain terminal in St. John the Baptist Parish, reversing an appeals court decision seen as a victory for environmental groups fighting the industrial project.

But what the court's ruling on a decades-old zoning change means for the now-canceled grain project is unclear, as a slew of related cases are ongoing.

Parish leaders in St. John followed state law when they passed a 1990 zoning ordinance that changed land from residential to industrial use, the state's high court found. Officials 35 years ago enacted that rezoning for another company, Formosa Plastics, that wanted to build a plant in the area.

The Formosa deal imploded and sent the then-parish president to federal prison on corru

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