NEW: EPA Administrator Michael Regan traveled to the site of a Louisiana rubber plant to announce a proposal aimed at sharply reducing the amount of chemical toxins released into the air by the facility and others around the country.
on Thursday to announce a proposal aimed at sharply reducing the amount of chemical toxins released into the air by the facility and others around the country.
For more on this story, tune in to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight at 6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT or check your local listings.chronicled years of inaction by state and federal government in this industrial swath of southern Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley.” The Denka facility is among more than 150 chemical plants built along an 85-mile corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where toxic chemicals have plagued the mostly Black communities for decades.
Robert Taylor, 82, said he and Hampton didn’t hear even “a peep” from any public officials in the first few years after they founded the community group Concerned Citizens of St. John in 2016. At the time, St. John the Baptist Parish had the highest cancer risk in the U.S. Today, the cancer risk is still nearly seven times the national average, according to the EPA.The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant in Louisiana.The Justice Department sued Denka in February and demanded that it reduce emissions of chloroprene at its Louisiana plant.
“We know we can detect at these levels, and we know that it will save lives and reduce exposure to cancer risks,” he said.
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