Overview
- The suit filed in New York State Supreme Court by Jobs to Move America and Neighbors for a Better Micron challenges OCIDA’s review, alleging inadequate analysis of PFAS emissions, greenhouse gases, and roughly 200 acres of wetlands, and it asks the court to nullify key approvals.
- Micron plans four fabrication plants at the Clay site by 2041, with the first two slated to produce DRAM by 2030, and the company says the buildout would increase U.S. DRAM output twelvefold over two decades.
- Site preparation is set to begin within days with clearing of 445 acres of forest, roughly 2 million cubic yards of fill to stabilize the site, and more than 500 truck trips per day, with tree cutting barred from March 31 to Nov. 1 to protect endangered bats.
- The company projects 9,000 direct manufacturing jobs and about 40,000 additional roles over 20 years, and it previously secured $6.1 billion in CHIPS Act funding to support the expansion.
- The build will displace woods and wetlands and affect endangered bats and birds; Micron says it will create 1,216 acres of off-site bat habitat, 628 acres of land offsets, and construct wetlands to exceed early losses, following an Army Corps review of impacts including 193.38 acres of regulated wetlands.