RESERVE, La. — Before the DuPont-Denka chloroprene plant in Reserve shut down temporarily in June, the average concentrations of the toxic chemical in the air were on the rise again at a nearby ...

A service program of RISE St. James; Caitlion O. Hunter, Juris Doctor, Class of 2022, Past President, Loyola Environmental Law Society; Tim Schütz, PhD Researcher, Anthropology University of ...

Nearly a year and a half ago, the chemical company Denka Performance Elastomer made a landmark announcement: It had agreed with state regulators to cut emissions of chloroprene — a ...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has certified that the only chemical plant in America producing chloroprene has reduced its emissions of the likely ...

Eight months after a LaPlace company asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to soften its findings about the danger of exposure to chloroprene emissions, the federal agency has instead doubled ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to compel a chemical manufacturing plant to curb its environmental emissions in a region where the estimated cancer risk is among the highest in the U.S. The ...

Hundreds of rubber industry chemicals and plastics resin plants are facing much tougher rules for fenceline emissions under an April 6 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal that's drawing ...

Dublin, April 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Chloroprene Rubber - Global Strategic Business Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Global Chloroprene Rubber Market to ...

In a Russian chloroprene latex manufacturing facility, airborne chloroprene concentrations varied from 0.3 to 2.2 ppm (1 to 8 mg/m3) (Volkova et al., 1976). Recent data from two chloroprene ...