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☆ Environmental Protection Agency Limits Pollution From Chemical Plants
  + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Lisa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
More than 200 chemical plants across the country will be required to curb the toxic pollutants they release into the air under a regulation announced by the Biden administration on Tuesday. The regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people living near industrial sites. This is the first time in nearly two decades that the government has tightened limits on pollution from chemical plants. The new rule, from the Environmental Protection Agency, specifically targets ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize medical devices, and chloroprene, which is used to make rubber in footwear. They are considered a top health concern in an area of Louisiana so dense with petrochemical and refinery plants that it is known as Cancer Alley.
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☆ Louisiana Was Open to Cancer Alley Concessions. Then EPA Dropped Its Investigation
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +9 min
For more than a year, the Environmental Protection Agency investigated whether Louisiana officials discriminated against Black residents by putting them at increased cancer risk. As attorney general, Landry fought the EPA’s investigation. Health officials, for example, wanted the unilateral power to decide if and when they had to do the EPA-proposed analysis. The AP reviewed a draft agreement edited by state health officials and sent to EPA in May, reflecting negotiations at the time. It has not reviewed any draft agreement that would show what Louisiana's environmental agency might have been willing to accept.
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☆ DOJ Sues Louisiana Chemicals Plant Over Emissions With High Cancer Risks
  + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Denka’s facility in LaPlace, La., is in an industrial corridor sometimes referred to as “Cancer Alley,” because of the elevated cancer risks among communities there. The Justice Department sued a chemical manufacturing company in an industrial area of southern Louisiana, saying it must cut emissions of a carcinogenic material. The DOJ filed the lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer LLC on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency stating that the company’s neoprene plant in LaPlace, La., along the Mississippi River, disproportionately exposed Black residents to the chemical chloroprene.
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