Litigation Dismissed

Legal filings 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, allegedly responsible for the cancer risk rates in the surrounding Black neighborhoods.

The litigation was filed under the Biden administration in February 2023 to curb the plant’s chloroprene emissions, a likely human carcinogen. It had targeted both the current operator, the Japanese firm Denka, and its previous owner, the American chemical giant DuPont, and formed a central piece of the former administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to address environmental justice issues in disadvantaged communities. (From The Guardian)

It reminds me of the Floyd lead in the water "national emergency", caused by incompetent operators in that Black town. That was in Barack Obama's times. 

Confidence in the principal study (NTP, 1998) is judged to be high as it was a well-designed study using two test species (rats and mice) with 50 animals per dose group.  (I am not proposing that there was absolutely no risk, but that it was extremely small. No epidemiological studies of human cancer were mentioned in the studies. The EPA only considers the risk for the more extreme cases, say for sickly newborns. The cost of protection against the probably inexistent risk was in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It would have been cheaper to resettle the community.)