How to Use chloroprene in a Sentence

chloroprene

noun
  • Ethylene oxide is used as a sterilizing agent for medical equipment and chloroprene is used to make synthetic rubber.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Ethylene oxide is used as a sterilizing agent for medical equipment, and chloroprene is used to make synthetic rubber.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The lawsuit demands that Denka eliminate dangerous emissions of chloroprene.
    — Michael Phillis and Matthew Daly, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The rule targets ethylene oxide, used for sterilizing medical devices, and chloroprene, used to make rubber in footwear, plus four other chemicals.
    — Peter Weber, theweek, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The exception will be for companies that make neoprene, a manufacturing process which releases cancer-causing chloroprene.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Production of neoprene—dive wetsuits, insulated lunch boxes, beer koozies—emits toxic chloroprene, and this is the only plant in America that produces it.
    — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 13 July 2017
  • Most of the violations stemmed from leaking or uncapped pipes releasing chloroprene, which Denka uses to make neoprene for wet suits and other materials.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
  • The new rule primarily targets industry plants that emit ethylene oxide and chloroprene, according to the EPA.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The proposal would slash ethylene oxide emissions nationwide by about two-thirds and chloroprene by three-quarters from 2020 levels, according to the agency.
    — Michael Phillis, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The plant, owned by Denka Performance Elastomer, already has chloroprene monitors at more than 20 locations along its perimeter.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Under pressure from state regulators, Denka agreed in 2017 to install equipment designed to reduce chloroprene emissions.
    — Katie Reimchen, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Children under the age of 16 are particularly vulnerable to carcinogens like chloroprene, according to the EPA.
    — Katie Reimchen, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Among other things, the agency also recommended that state environmental officials conduct testing of locations in the parish to determine where concentrations of chloroprene are low enough to temporarily relocate the students to.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Denka has challenged the EPA's measurements of chloroprene and won a delay in enforcement orders from state environmental regulators while the company installed new pollution controls.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Air monitoring consistently shows long-term chloroprene concentrations in the air near Denka's LaPlace plant as high as 15 times the levels recommended for a 70-year exposure to the chemical, the complaint says.
    — Michael Phillis and Matthew Daly, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Air monitoring consistently shows long-term chloroprene concentrations in the air near Denka’s LaPlace plant as high as 15 times the levels recommended for a 70-year exposure to the chemical, the complaint says.
    — Michael Phillis, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The company reduced chloroprene emissions after the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality issued an order in 2017, but the complaint said levels of the chemical are still too high.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023

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