re: Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn’t relaxed

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How on earth did they spin this into a race issue

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Environmental Racism, the new hot topic with Anti-Industry groups. All the laws and rules industry has to follow only protects White People in their minds.

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It doesn't matter, though, because the city attempted to shift all the blame to the plants, or at least the few that were still in operation (you likely know their names). The city claimed it had no idea such as that was thrown into that dump for decades. And today, the litigation still rolls on.

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I have a feeling this type of frickery is only going to increase. And of course, the local media in such towns/cities will never tell the full story with the necessary historical facts.

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The OT is a bit two faced on this issue. On one hand, Bogalusa's main problem, before it became a crime infested shithole with a Marxist for a mayor, was the papermill. Now it's both. Considering Bogalusa's proximity to St Tammany, how much better off would Bogalusa have been if they told the mill kick rocks 25 years ago and billed itself as a cheap residential community? 25 years ago people were still fixing up the old houses in town and raising a family there. Now it's just rent houses and section 8.

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Bogalusa would still be a shithole, just a shithole with a smaller population.

The city owes its entire existence to industry. It was founded by a lumber company and built around a sawmill. Those people “fixing up old houses” 25 years ago were doing so because they either worked at the paper mill or had jobs elsewhere in the local economy which was propped up by.. the paper mill.

The fact that it’s kind of close to St. Tammany doesn’t mean it would be Mandeville if not for the paper mill.

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That being said, these companies absolutely have a responsibility to clean up after themselves but we have to find rational ways to balance the two.

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Completely agree.

This plant use to be the DuPont Neoprene plant. DuPont also makes Kevlar on that site. DuPont sold the Neoprene plant to Denka because Neoprene has a low profit margin compared to making Kevlar for the MIC. My theory is that Denka bought the Neoprene business with a long term lease and DuPont can't get Denka off of the property. Remember DuPont was the original polluter and Denka has reduced the emissions by 80% of what DuPont was emitting. But that isn't enough for the EPA who is helping DuPont get out of the long-term lease by shutting down the Neoprene plant for environmental issues. Once the plant is shut down DuPont will have more land available to build more capacity for Kevlar production. One other note, if this plane shuts down there will not be another polychlorprene (Neoprene) plant in the Americas (north, central and south). You can expect any product that uses polychlorprene to skyrocket and in time of war the US will be SOL.

Really respect the thought put into this theory

The reality is—If Denka shuts down, DuPont will 100% go down with the ship as well. Not sure the media and community realize this. The loss of jobs would be double what they think it would be.

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She and they won’t be saying that in a few years, whenever Reserve turns into an even bigger shithole than it already is.

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It’s not like the plants have translated into much population growth for the area, so shouldn’t be a huge deal for this one to leave.

LOL. They don't want jobs. Just want to complain, and wait on that check.

It’s mostly because of shared utilities at the site between the two companies. Nitrogen, natural gas, steam, river water…

DuPont provides most of this because the equipment was meant to run at that efficiency anyways. Denka foots the bill for their usage.

don't worry, they can make the same stuff in china without any environmental regulations at 1/2 the price and we can import it

those 250 people don't need those jobs