Environmentalists seek to back EPA in Denka compliance deadline suit

Local environmentalists are seeking to intervene on EPA’s behalf in an appellate suit over Louisiana’s decision to extend by nearly two years Denka Performance Elastomers’s (DPE) deadline for complying with the agency’s strict new chloroprene emissions limits, which the agency had required the company to comply with in 90 days. Concerned Citizens of St. John and Rise St. James filed a Dec. 6 motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to intervene, a move that if...