Denka-area cancer study to start soon; Louisiana health officials lay out blueprint [View all]
State health officials plan to knock on every door within 2.5 kilometers of the controversial Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish in hopes of determining exactly how many people in the neighborhood have developed cancer.
Neighbors say the inquiry, first announced in late August, is long overdue.
The Denka plant is the only one in the country that emits chloroprene, which was classified as a likely carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2010.
The plant is in the heart of Louisiana's industrial corridor, which already has some of the most toxic air pollution in the nation, and where a wave of new petrochemical plants is expected to worsen air quality in already overburdened areas, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Times-Picayune and The Advocate.
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