David Sanders, a long-time resident of Reserve, says before the Denka/Dupont plant, things were different. “My people used to ...

A LaPlace facility Gov. Jeff Landry has accused a federal agency of trying to shut down reported the leak of a cancer-causing ...

Tokyo – Denka Inc. expects to continue operations at its chloroprene rubber manufacturing plant in Laplace, Louisiana as a grace period for new standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Denka Performance Elastomer on Tuesday blamed a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that targets emissions at more than 200 industrial plants, arguing that other, more dangerous facilities ...

On April 9, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced new regulations aimed at reducing chemical air ...

John Parish Denka Plant to reduce its chemical emissions. The EPA said the plant's chloroprene emissions increase the risk of cancer for nearby residents in St. John Parish. Earlier this year ...

A federal judge in New Orleans has agreed to hold a hearing in late November on whether to restart a stalled Environmental ...

Denka's 90-day limit would have been reached on October 16. Denka's LaPlace plant is the only facility in the U.S. that produces chloroprene, an interim chemical in the production of neoprene ...

Attorneys representing Denka pointed to the major emission reductions already achieved through nearly $35 million in plant improvements, and said the timing of the request, six weeks after being ...

The federal government has sued Denka for failing to reduce levels of chloroprene, a known carcinogen, coming from the plant. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator) A LaPlace facility Gov. Jeff Landry ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and Gov. Jeff Landry hold a press conference on July 1, 2024, at the Denka neoprene plant in LaPlace to speak against a new EPA rule they say is unfair to ...