EPA Asks Court To Reopen Landmark Denka Air Act Enforcement Suit

EPA is asking a federal district court to reopen its landmark Clean Air Act endangerment lawsuit seeking to force Louisiana-based Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE) to dramatically reduce chloroprene emissions from the nation’s only synthetic rubber manufacturing plant, after the company won a two-year extension of new regulatory limits on its releases. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana paused EPA’s Clean Air Act enforcement action claiming “imminent and substantial endangerment” from the DPE plant earlier this year,...