Denka Joins EPA’s Request To Resume Novel Air Enforcement Suit

Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE), the target of EPA’s novel Clean Air Act enforcement suit claiming “imminent and substantial endangerment” from the company’s chloroprene emissions, is agreeing with the agency that the case can resume after a months-long stay but says it still “strongly disagrees” that the issue is an “emergency.” DPE lays out its position in a Sept. 24 response to EPA’s motion to reopen the case, United States v. Denka, et al., which had been on hold in...