DuPont and former group units Chemours and Corteva have agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle out of court US claims that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) discharged from their plants contaminated waterways that supply a majority of US public water systems.
Acting on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the US Department of Justice has ordered Japanese plastics and rubber producer Denka Performance Elastomer to “significantly reduce” hazardous chloroprene emissions from its neoprene plant in LaPlace, Louisiana.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced additional actions to phase down the use of ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), lending a boost to president Joe Biden’s agenda for combating climate change.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a closer look at permits issued for chemical plants by the state of Louisiana’s environment department (LDEQ) over several years in an effort to determine whether they violated anti-pollution standards and disadvantaged Black people residing downwind.
New US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Michael Regan, sworn in to his office on Mar. 17, has begun removing experts and lobbyists from industry who were appointed by former president Donald Trump to two key advisory panels.
