More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Areas that will benefit from the new rule include majority-Black neighborhoods outside New Orleans that EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited as part of his 2021 Journey to Justice tour. The rule will significantly reduce emissions of chloroprene and other harmful pollutants at the Denka Performance Elastomer facility in LaPlace, Louisiana, the largest source of chloroprene emissions in the country, Regan said.
I would be on board with completely banning toxic cancer causing emissions
Notice the Houston version of this headline, lol
a chemical manufactured in Texas that forced the evacuation of a community in eastern Ohio last year after a train derailment there.
I love that it was known to force an evacuation when the train derailed, but the bi-product of it was ok to just put into the air.
