Industrial

The Global Energy Monitor’s ninth annual survey of the world’s current and planned coal plants reveals that while the numbers of both had fallen over the last 12 months, they need to fall a great deal faster.

The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the EPA have filed a complaint to compel Denka Performance Elastomer to significantly reduce chloroprene emissions from its neoprene manufacturing plant in an area known as ‘Cancer alley’ in LaPlace, Louisiana. The EPA have long held that the company’s operations are a danger to public health due to the cancer risks associated with chloroprene.