Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
by Oliver Laughland in New Orleans from on (#6VRTF)
Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont
The Donald Trump administration has formally agreed to drop a landmark environmental justice case in Louisiana's Cancer Alley" region, marking a blow to clean air advocates in the region and a win for the Japanese petrochemical giant at the centre of the litigation.
Legal filings made public on Friday morning reveal that Trump's Department of Justice agreed to dismiss a long-running lawsuit against the operators of a synthetic rubber plant in Reserve, Louisiana, which is allegedly largely responsible for some of the highest cancer risk rates in the US for the surrounding majority-Black neighborhoods.
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