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The proposed rules would reduce cancer risk and other exposure for communities that live close to harmful emitters, the EPA said.

A new index that rates 70,000 U.S. communities on their climate vulnerability finds that parts of the Gulf Coast subject to flooding and economic and racial inequities are most under threat

Federal officials are suing a Louisiana chemical maker, alleging that it presented an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions. The lawsuit Tuesday

Federal officials sued the chemical maker on Tuesday, alleging that it presents an unacceptable cancer risk.

It allegedly presents an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby community.

Federal officials are suing a Louisiana chemical maker, alleging that it presented an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions. The lawsuit Tuesday accuses Denka Performance Elastomer, which makes synthetic rubber, of emitting the carcinogen chloroprene in such high concentrations that it poses an unacceptable cancer risk. Children are particularly vulnerable. There’s an elementary school a half-mile from the plant. Denka did not imm...

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/doj-sues-la-company-over-cancer-risk-to-minority-community/"></div>WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical maker on Tuesday, alleging that it presents an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions. Denka Performance Elastomer LLC makes synthetic rubber, emitting the carcinogen chloroprene and other chemicals in s...

Federal officials are suing a Louisiana chemical maker, alleging that it presented an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community.

Federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical maker on Tuesday, alleging that it presents an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions.

Federal officials allege that Denke Performance Elastomer presented an unacceptable cancer risk to a nearby majority-Black community.