Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 13, the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in Louisiana announced that it would be suspending all production indefinitely ...

Denka's controversial plant in St. John the Baptist Parish has suspended production and is exploring a potential sale of the site, the company said Tuesday, leaving the future unclear for a facility ...

Denka Performance Elastomers has won a temporary reprieve in a U.S. appeals court from having to shut down its LaPlace plant in October for not complying with a new federal rule requiring it to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing cancer risks for a majority Black community indefinitely suspended operations largely due to the high cost of reducing toxic ...

A federal judge in New Orleans has paused a 2023 air pollution lawsuit filed against Denka Performance Elastomers by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency until Oct. 15 or until one of two federal ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday celebrated its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a ...

FILE - The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back left, in Reserve, La., Sept. 23, 2022. (AP ...