Cancer

A federal judge <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cancer.pdf"><strong>denied</strong></a> a request by Pontchartrain Works Facility, the nation’s only manufacturer of neoprene, to dismiss as “speculative” a third amended complaint from area residents who say chloroprene emissions pose a risk of cancer more than 800 times the national average.

BATON ROUGE — A federal judge denied a request by Pontchartrain Works Facility, the nation’s only manufacturer of neoprene, to dismiss as “speculative” a third amended complaint from area residents who say chloroprene emissions pose a risk of cancer more than 800 times the national average.

Categories / Environment, Health, Personal Injury

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