"Regulators cited the Goodyear chemical plant for releasing high amounts of a bladder carcinogen last year but say they are still investigating."
"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 consider safe for the public to breathe, documents show.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a notice of violation 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’t 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’s potent cancer-causing properties.
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 that was linked to bladder cancer in animal experiments as far back as the 1950s. DPA is a possible carcinogen that may damage the bladder, kidneys and liver. According to the plant’s state-issued 2009 permit, both are considered “A-rated” air toxics by the DEC, referring to a substance whose “discharge results, or may result, in serious adverse effects on individuals or the environment.”"
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