EPA Suggests Denka May Need To Go Beyond New Rule To Cut Emissions

EPA is suggesting that Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE) may need to take additional steps beyond complying with a new air toxics rule limiting chloroprene emissions at the company’s manufacturing plant -- the nation’s only source of the pollutant -- in order to meet a separate enforcement action. In a Sept. 30 filing , EPA says it is seeking a court order in the Clean Air Act “imminent and substantial endangerment” enforcement case it is seeking to reopen requiring the facility...