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 ...

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 ...

RESERVE (WVUE) - She’s not wearing her red 0.2 T-shirt now, but Reserve resident Mary Hampton still keeps it close by. “We’re tired of being put aside and all the years of fighting,” said Hampton. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A chemical manufacturer in LaPlace that has come under fire in recent years for releasing concerning levels of chloroprene into the air has accused the Environmental Protection Agency of using faulty ...

LAPLACE, La. (WVUE) - In 2010, the EPA labeled chloroprene as a likely carcinogen, and recommends that emissions levels not rise above that .2 micrograms per cubic meter. But now, nine years later and ...

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, ...

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 ...