A controversial plants in the center of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region has an infinite suspended every production of the following dire financial results, which facility in operators FORECAST Of Tuesday.
In Denka Performance Elastomer Plant in St. John Parish has while it is associated The chronic air pollution issues and was the subject of years, a long guardian reporting series Examining the risk of risk rates of danger experienced by experienced a major black, as surrounding facility.
Denka, a Japanese chemicals firm, cited growing organization in Biden President and a “stayed slowdown in the global market demand” for its product, the situation. The company is not decided on a permanent farmer, said that it is said, adding chemicals giant was “Exploring all available options for the future site, including sale facility.”
The sepe-line community’s fight for the world air is made from national and international environmental justice is more clearly the call, impartitus a number of media from the Biden Administration. This included the introduction of New rule Government emissions on the plant’s primary pollutant, a likely human carcinogen name Chloropreneand US Control Department Cause Seeking to compel denka to lower his pollution.
The Trump’s administration asked to solve many of these initiatives. Trump’s Justice Department dropped Litigation In March “ideological overreach” and a new executive as targeting as “the program”.
Denka said to the administration of the “start to rewrite” Biden-era chloroprene rule.
Still, the company said that it is “extraordinary damage in financial results” for the last year of the amount at 16.1 billion yen (roughly $ 109m) in loss. Although the decline in the global demand, the company and blamed in a doubt by increased rule in Joe Biden at his facility’s financial collapse in America.
Guardian has been revealed How plants are former owners, US chemicals giant dupont, sought to sell facility in 2015 in the secrets of the deal after they cite around the potential environmental and its impact on profit margins. Dupont was withheld information about his care before selling to Denka.
Dupont will automatically respond to a request to comment on Tuesday.
Denka came to the 2015 Sale again Mars, suggesting that he had “not anticipated” work to install pollution technology and equipment to the point of purchase. With a purchasing facility, the Japanese firm has invested by $ 35m in the emissions offset technology and claimed reduced chloroprene emissions more than 80%.
Notably: Chloroprene lessons recorded by EPA And continued to show measures, even excess of the federal government is a life exposure to leadership.
Residents who fought for years against plant’s pollution expressed some cautious in Tuesday.
“It’s [the suspension of production] It is not about us in the city. It cares about us, “said Mary Hampton of an immense state.” What do video is now what you never mind to emissions down. But now already hit internationally have a choice. “
Hampton, who has lived in the fence-line community of reserve for her entire life and lost a number of family members to cancer, added that the community remained concerning a potential sale to another manufacturer.
“I’m worried about it’s just a” Hampton said. “I’m worried they’re going to sell someone else who will come with the same regulations and keep doing exactly what they want.”