The proposed law introduced would bar the federal Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments ...

They call it “Cancer Alley.” It's an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The name stems from the fact that the area's residents have a 95% greater ...

One of those plants was the Denka Performance Elastomer chemical plant, a Japanese company whose plant in LaPlace, Louisiana, produces neoprene, a kind of synthetic rubber that is used in laptop ...

The Trump administration announced their plans to reverse many environmental justice efforts made by President Biden. Voter Outrage in California Sparks Political Shift All but one of the 20 ...

Biden’s EPA sued the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in early 2023, alleging it posed an unacceptable cancer risk and demanding cuts in toxic emissions of cancer-causing chloroprene.

The Biden administration filed the lawsuit against Denka in 2023 after regulators determined that the plant’s emissions of chloroprene, a likely carcinogen, were contributing to health concerns ...

Biden’s EPA sued the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in early 2023, alleging it posed an unacceptable cancer risk and demanding cuts in toxic emissions of cancer-causing chloroprene. The lawsuit was ...

Trump could drop a federal lawsuit against a petrochemical plant that emits chloroprene. Here’s a look at the cancer-causing chemical ...

In 2023, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer in an effort to get it to cut down its emissions of chloroprene. Chloroprene is a chemical that’s used in the ...

Louisiana DEQ Secretary Aurelia Giacometto at the Denka Performance Elastomers plant in Laplace on Monday, July 1, 2024. Governor Jeff Landr, back right, said the state was going to ignore the EPA ...