One of those plants was the Denka Performance Elastomer chemical plant, a Japanese company whose plant in LaPlace, Louisiana, produces neoprene, a kind of synthetic rubber that is used in laptop ...

A landmark federal lawsuit initiated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging that a chemical facility in St. John the Baptist Parish threatens the surrounding community with ...

Roxanne Keller joined us on "TMZ Live" Thursday, pointing out the highly polluted area of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley is a predominantly Black community, so she's not shocked that a Biden-era ...

In a joint filing on Friday, attorneys representing the EPA and Denka Performance Elastomer notified U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier that they had reached a settlement to end the 2023 lawsuit ...

Biden’s EPA sued the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in early 2023, alleging it posed an unacceptable cancer risk and demanding cuts in toxic emissions of cancer-causing chloroprene. The lawsuit was ...

The Biden administration had sued to force the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in Louisiana to reduce emissions of chloroprene, a likely carcinogen. By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration ...

In 2023, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer in an effort to get it to cut down its emissions of chloroprene. Chloroprene is a chemical that’s used in the ...

The lawsuit alleges that the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in LaPlace, Louisiana, threatens local residents by releasing unsafe levels of the toxic chemical chloroprene. The Environmental ...

Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - March 10, 2025) - Bracewell LLP announced today that it has secured a major win for the firm's client Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE) in the long-standing ...