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Risk in the country of developing cancer from air toxins. the toxin in this case is chloropreen. according to data, the risk for people who live in this area highlighted in red ranges from roughly 5 to roughly 0 times the national average. >> i was outraged, because i'm trying to figure out why people hadn't been informed of this earlier. >> the source is this plant owned by denka. the japanese company bought it from dupont in late 2014. the company makes a synthetic rubber. the plant has emitted chloroprene for more than 40 years. the epa tells us 99% of the chloroprene chloroprene emitted by...

To artificially target a number that you can't legally enforce, it absolutely makes no sense. >> jorge is an executive officer of the company and the manager of the plant. so, this company doesn't believe that chloroprene causes cancer. >> that's correct. >> this summer denka argued for a classification to be changed from likely carcinogenic to humans to possibly carcinogenic and that .2 should be 31.2, more than 150 times the epa's cancer risk recommendation. >> we have looked at the study they did and how they came up with the .2 and we have found gaps in the science of it. >> the epa stands...