Judge restarts novel EPA enforcement case against Denka

A federal judge in Louisiana has agreed to restart EPA’s novel Clean Air Act “imminent and substantial endangerment” enforcement action against Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE), though the suit is unlikely to continue under the incoming Trump administration. During a Nov. 21 status conference, Judge Carl Barbier of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a minute order in United States v. DPE , where he rejected the company’s request for additional discovery in the action where...