{"id":86217,"date":"2024-09-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/?p=86217"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:23:55","slug":"new-york-niagara-falls-goodyear-chemical-plant-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/18092024\/new-york-niagara-falls-goodyear-chemical-plant-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Chemical Is Fouling Niagara Falls\u2019 Air. New York State Hasn\u2019t Put a Stop to It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators now <\/strong>consider safe for the public to breathe, documents show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a notice of violation<\/a> to Goodyear in July 2023 for failing to control emissions of the bladder carcinogen, ortho-toluidine, and another pollutant, diphenylamine, known as DPA. But more than a year later, the DEC still hasn\u2019t ordered the company to reduce those emissions, even though the agency severely tightened the airborne limit for ortho-toluidine in 2021 due to the chemical\u2019s potent cancer-causing properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DEC violation notice focuses on two pollution-control devices that have failed to adequately capture ortho-toluidine and DPA. Ortho-toluidine is a known human carcinogen<\/a> that was linked to bladder cancer in animal experiments as far back as the 1950s. DPA is a possible carcinogen<\/a> that may damage the bladder, kidneys and liver. According to the plant\u2019s state-issued 2009 permit, both are considered \u201cA-rated\u201d air toxics by the DEC, referring to a substance whose \u201cdischarge results, or may result, in serious adverse effects on individuals or the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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