New York, United States, Jan. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The monomer required to create the polymer polychloroprene is chloroprene, an invisible liquid. Colourful synthetic rubber called ...

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 ...

Many residents have turned Denka's air emissions into an "environmental cause célèbre,” Lavastida and Holden wrote in the letter, later adding: “For (Denka), this matter is at a crisis point.” They ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dallas, Texas, United States, Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Chloroprene rubber Market Research Report by Grade (Linear, Crystallizing Resistance, Sulfur Modified, Others), by Application ...

The Environmental Protection Agency released a letter to Denka Performance Elastomer last week refusing the chemical company’s request to change its assessment of a chemical called chloroprene. Denka, ...