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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...