A chemical known to increase the risk of cancer is far more prevalent in the air along the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans than previously thought,
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New EPA rules will require chemical plants like Denka s to cut emissions of cancer-causing chemicals, a decade after communities raised the alarm about skyrocketing rates of cancer.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled gatherings to answer questions and take input on an air permit renewal application for an Institute industrial facility it has preliminarily determined it will approve. The renewal would be for a Specialty Products US LLC site that has helped high air toxic risk in the area from ethylene oxide.