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Washington (AFP)-On Friday, the Ministry of Justice celebrated its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against the Louisiana Petrochemical Factory accused of exacerbating the risk of cancer for residents of a majority black society, and showed that officials “benefit the President (Donald) to dismantle Di (diversity, diversity and inclusion).
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The judge said in a statement that the dismissal on Wednesday from the two -year -old case confirmed the Trump administration's commitment “to cancel the ideological transgression and restore the enforcement of federal laws.”
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At the same time, the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew its official referral to the case to the Ministry of Justice. The agency said that the procedure is in line with the pledge of the Environmental Protection Agency official Lee Zeladen to end the use of “environmental justice” as an enforcement tool that Zeladen was often used to develop liberal ideological priorities.
The rejection of the case revealed one of the goals of former President Joe Biden to the highest outstanding goals of environmental justice efforts that aim to improve conditions in places that were not affected by impartially due to contracts of industrial pollution. Biden's EPA filed a lawsuit against the DENKA Performance Elastomer Factory in early 2023, claiming that it poses an unacceptable risk of cancer and requires discounts in toxic emissions of cancer -causing chlorpern.
The lawsuit was filed in the American provincial court in the eastern province of Louisiana and was officially withdrawn on Wednesday.
This procedure is one of the series of the Trump administration while moving quickly to reflect the environmental justice of the Biden Administration, putting nearly 170 employees focusing on environmental justice on an administrative leave. The dropping of the DENKA case reduces pressure on a company that has spent years in fighting federal cases and investigations on its impact on public health.
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Denaka, based in Japan, bought the former Doubont factory in Lapas, Louisiana, a decade ago. It is located near an elementary school in a community about 30 miles outside New Orleans.
The site produces neoprene, an artificial rubber found in products such as diving and laptop sleeves. The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit against the company in early 2023, accusing it of waiting for unacceptable levels of chloroprene, a chemical that may be especially harmful to children. The judge had identified the trial of the bench for April.
The dismissal of the issue reflects “the renewed commitment to the Ministry of Justice to impose environmental laws as the Congress is constantly intended, and without any consideration of race.”
Zeldin, a former Republican Congress member who seized the Environmental Protection Agency in late January, said that the chapter was “a step towards ensuring that the application of the environment is compatible with the law. While the mission of the Basic Environmental Protection Agency includes cleaning air air to all Americans, we can fulfill this task within firm legal frameworks, without extending the limits of the law or implementing the so -called” environmental justice “incorrectly.”
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Denaka said that the chapter was “long” and ended in litigation, which he said was lacking in scientific and legal merit. The company said that the lawsuit was “an attack to deplete our business.”
The company said in a statement, “The focus should be on the real world data that does not show any harmful health effects, even at much higher emission levels,” the company said in a statement.
The government's lawsuit said that air control showed that long -term concentrations near the Denika factory reaches 15 times the recommended amount of long -term exposure to chloroprene.
The Environmental Protection Agency, under Biden, released a relevant base aimed at reducing industrial pollution, which gave Denica a quick period to reduce its emissions. The company said it was distinguished and other manufacturers were granted more time to comply. The company also said that the factory has greatly reduced its emissions in recent years, since the sale was completed in 2015. The company won the extension of the deadline.
The Denka Factory is located in the artificial extension of Louisiana from New Orleans to Patton Rouge called The Mississippi River Chemical Corridor. It is unofficially known as the cancer alley due to the high incidence of cancer among the population living near the industrial corridor, which includes about 200 fossil fuels and petrochemical. The region represents about 25 % of petrochemical production in the United States.
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